“I will miss my pain / But I have to make way for something better,” she sings. If that weren’t enough, Shannon’s lyrics and singing are exceptional, tapping into the need for change in these hazy, in-limbo times. “Rare To Wake” leaps gracefully between time signatures, Nick Drake-like drones, and choral arrangements, all in a completely naturalistic way.
Shannon Lay makes the kind of folk music that sounds simple, but it’s deceptively complex. Add in Sam Gendel’s stuttering sax and you get a song that’s as strange as the past eighteen months, but ready to usher in a new future. Pairing a mini-orchestra with a shape-shifting jazz ensemble, the song sounds as if Brian Wilson were a member of the Soulquarians, or J Dilla chopped up Pet Sounds. “Just Wrong” is generously weird: not off-putting, just off-kilter. This team-up was bound to bear some interesting fruit. The credits between Pino Palladino and Blake Mills are staggering: Pino’s played bass with D’Angelo, Erykah Badu, and The Who Blake produced Alabama Shakes’ smash Sound & Color before working with John Legend, Perfume Genius, and more, including his own recordings. Pino Palladino & Blake Mills – “Just Wrong” “Orion From The Street” is big and joyous, but homespun, the kind of music that’s daydreamed into existence. They self-record in their Sunderland, England-based home studio, which allows for happy accidents and an off-kilter point of view. But what sets Field Music apart from so many similarly-inspired bands is their attention to detail, and a restless creativity. In their recent ‘My KUTX’ takeover, the Brewis brothers showed off a love for all things ’80s pop, which you can hear as a throughline across their varied work. Here are some of our favorite songs from the first half of the year. But we shouldn’t overlook the great music that has already been made, even it was released more or less in a vacuum. The back half of 2021 is likely to look a lot different – lots more releases, shows, concerts, actual live music on KUTX – and we’re all really excited about that.
Slowly, the tour machine is grinding up, and all the artists who have released great pandemic recordings are getting ready to strut their stuff on the concert stage. We’re a bit more than halfway through 2021, all laser-focused on a normalcy finish line.
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