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Like an endless day at the beach caught on an old Polaroid, colors faded but the memories vivid - that's the languid sound of Sun Gold. Take some of the biggest and baddest rock tunes of the Nineties - chestnuts by bands like Alice in Chains, Stone Temple Pilots, and Foo Fighters - bleached, faded and aged by the sun and the years into dreamier, psychedelic-tinged folk-rock melancholia, mellowed by memory into the calmer tides of the years to come.
Coming of age in those now nostalgic Nineties, singer-songwriters <a href="spotify:artist:3JnbukUTy6CcGcDTxBFlp5" data-name="Wes Hutchinson">Wes Hutchinson</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:6mqqIghQOdM9bkNCMNaapK" data-name="Casey Shea">Casey Shea</a> have worked together since 2002, both leaving Nashville for New York, and both leaving New York for LA.
Together again, the pair's long partnership yields the kind of brotherly and buoyant close harmony associated with the Byrds, Beach Boys, CSNY, and early-70s Pink Floyd. Witness their hypnotic reading of Alice in Chain's "Man in the Box," which, like their similarly poignant and touching covers of Smashing Pumpkins' "1979" or Morphine's "Cure for Pain," reveals layers of meaning, emotion and reflections that perhaps even the original songwriters did not anticipate.
Sun Gold, then, is neither an homage nor a tribute album, but rather a kind of beautifully burnished distant echo, an elegant audio memory spiraling two decades into the future, that tells us as much about who we are now as it does who we imagine we were then.
Coming of age in those now nostalgic Nineties, singer-songwriters <a href="spotify:artist:3JnbukUTy6CcGcDTxBFlp5" data-name="Wes Hutchinson">Wes Hutchinson</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:6mqqIghQOdM9bkNCMNaapK" data-name="Casey Shea">Casey Shea</a> have worked together since 2002, both leaving Nashville for New York, and both leaving New York for LA.
Together again, the pair's long partnership yields the kind of brotherly and buoyant close harmony associated with the Byrds, Beach Boys, CSNY, and early-70s Pink Floyd. Witness their hypnotic reading of Alice in Chain's "Man in the Box," which, like their similarly poignant and touching covers of Smashing Pumpkins' "1979" or Morphine's "Cure for Pain," reveals layers of meaning, emotion and reflections that perhaps even the original songwriters did not anticipate.
Sun Gold, then, is neither an homage nor a tribute album, but rather a kind of beautifully burnished distant echo, an elegant audio memory spiraling two decades into the future, that tells us as much about who we are now as it does who we imagine we were then.
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