{"product_id":"1886095","title":"Buster Sledge - Nice Time On Earth Today [CD]","description":"Brand New From Reputable UK Company With 30 Years Experience In Retail, Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.\u003cbr\u003eAll items shipped within 3 working days of payment.\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that all our DVDs are Region 2.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that not all audio CDs are shrink-wrapped fom the factory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNice 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.\u003cbr\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003eBuster 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWay Too Pretty\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCold Wet Blanket\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLast Day of the Worst Year\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSaddle Up the Fence\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFall Like Crumbs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWarm and Stupid\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNew Sock\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNew Shoes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharm the Gods That Made Us\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpring in her Step\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJesus Bugs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEndless Shiver\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chalkys.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54421402780033,"sku":"1886095","price":14.48,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0056\/8043\/1219\/files\/7033662074068.jpg?v=1750649743","url":"https:\/\/chalkys.com\/products\/1886095","provider":"Chalkys.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}