Buster Sledge - Nice Time On Earth Today [CD]

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Nice Time on Earth Today, the third full-length release from the Oslo-based Norwegian American Sadgrass wonder-group Buster Sledge, runs the gamut of both American folk and popular music styles. Though in this way the musical backdrop is continuously shifting, the text is always up-front and delivered via a hummable melody. Moments of reckless abandon and maximalism explode through unexpected chord changes, grandiose arrangements and wild solos while the backdrop remains tightly knitted and controlled-but not too much of anything of course! Balancing aesthetics is core to the artistic agenda of this band. The title of the album captures with a tongue in the cheek the modus operandi of their lyrical style, a sort of bluegrass/folk-inspired dark humor and levity (e.g. sad lyrics in a happy-sounding song) where the narrator seems to be suffering but also to view themselves suffering with an ironic distance, let's call it stoic melancholicana, and ideally with leave you with a couple verbal and sonic things to reflect on.rrBuster Sledge is an acoustic chamber-quartet of four voices, fiddle, banjo, guitar and contrabass fronted by a Californian living in Norway and backed by three Norwegians of diverse musical backgrounds, all with a shared love for traditional American music. The band creates a contemporary twist on music steeped in tradition through an original repertoire of music that brings the structure and pop-esque melodic focus of American old-time fiddle music as well as the lyrical meter and storytelling focus of old mountain-ballads and country songs together with modern harmonic and lyrical elements from rap, pop and jazz. These are some of the ways the group engages with the age-old tradition of recycling paraphrased archetypes into a new generation of expressions.

Way Too Pretty

Cold Wet Blanket

Last Day of the Worst Year

Saddle Up the Fence

Fall Like Crumbs

Warm and Stupid

New Sock

New Shoes

Charm the Gods That Made Us

Spring in her Step

Jesus Bugs

Endless Shiver

Way Too Pretty

Cold Wet Blanket

Last Day of the Worst Year

Saddle Up the Fence

Fall Like Crumbs

Warm and Stupid

New Sock

New Shoes

Charm the Gods That Made Us

Spring in her Step

Jesus Bugs

Endless Shiver

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