Kasey Anderson's Final album to release after losing his father
Kasey Anderson's Final album to release after losing his father
Kasey is a true artist.
"Let The Bloody Moon Rise" is the name of what is expected to be Kasey Anderson's Magnum Opus.
A good place to start with him is his Instagram.
Track 1 starts off with some dobro to get us in the mood. It opens the album with a bang.
"Down, Lucine" is the second track, and it is straight up ROCK AND ROLL.
Moving along we have a more subdued track in which to ponder being young, track 3 is "Just Kids".
"Older Guys" starts with some stellar keyboard playing and Kasey really singing it with all he has. It kicks in with drums and a bass-line that reminds us of Paul McCartney.
"I've Taken all my cues from the older guys.." I can totally relate!
An industrial sounding opening to "Ain't Life Grand" almost harkens to a Tom Waits dirge with heavy distortion and a chain-gang field holler of a song.
This brings us to the halfway point of this epic record, "Don't Look Back". Here Kasey gets real honest. I am not going to tell you about what exactly, you need to go listen...
My personal favorite on the album is track 7, "Like Teenage Gravity". This song sums up the vibe of the album so far, and has a laid back vibe that is perfect for driving down a country road.
Song 8 is a classic blues stomp called "Abaddon Blues" and it explains graphically the darker aspects of the blues.
Hell, Black sky, Dark, Smoke, Stiches, Booze- are some of the words that stick out.
The ninth song is called "The Lucky Ones" and I sure do feel lucky to be able to listen to this... This song has a dream-like opening sequence, almost feels more like a movie. It builds slowly to a gentle peak and seems to be the most tender moment on the albu.
Track 10 is "Bad Actor" and it is a classic rocker.
The FINAL track is "Already Gone" and it sure is a RAD way to finish a record.
It leaves us feeling hopeful and surely wanting more from Kasey Anderson.
He bears his soul on this record, and I sure would like to talk to him about his story.
From Kasey's team (In Music We Trust):
"When the loss of his father and the COVID-19 pandemic stalled the production of Kasey Anderson's final album, To the Places We Lived (due this fall), Kasey figured it would be a while before he could resume his position as a self-professed "Gradually Retiring Songwriter." That trajectory changed with the viral popularity of a political short film by Portland's own Eleven Films, which brought Kasey's anthemic song "The Dangerous Ones" (from the 2018 album From a White Hotel, which drew praise from Rolling Stone, No Depression, Wide Open Country and others) into the collective consciousness of a divided country, as the 2020 presidential election loomed. The Dangerous Ones, named for Kasey's song, amassed over 12 million views across platforms, spawning a movement and a new awareness of Kasey's catalogue, thanks in large part to a piece by Bob Lefsetz praising Kasey as one of the great unheralded songwriters of his generation.
The flood of attention brought Kasey's name to a new audience, who were unfamiliar with his work beyond "The Dangerous Ones" or perhaps Counting Crows' cover of "Like Teenage Gravity," and allowed him the chance to revisit a project nearly a decade in the making: Let the Bloody Moon Rise, the Kurt Bloch-produced album that had been shelved during Kasey's stints in treatment and prison. While an unfinished, bootleg copy of Let the Bloody Moon Rise mysteriously made its way to streaming services during Kasey's incarceration, the album — which features Kasey backed by Andrew McKeag (Presidents of the United States of America), Ty Bailie (Katy Perry), Eric Corson (The Long Winters, Perfume Genius) and Mike Musburger (The Fastbacks, the Posies) and joined by Jeff Fielder (Mark Lanegan, Amy Ray), David Immergluck (Counting Crows) Mike McCready (Pearl Jam), and Tim Rogers (You Am I) — had never seen a proper released in its correctly sequenced, mastered form. Until now.
On April 30, accompanied by a new essay from Hanif Abdurraqib and Wednesday Night, 'Round Nine, a previously unreleased live companion album, Let the Bloody Moon Rise will receive the release it deserves, to an audience ready to remember (or discover) just how a good a songwriter Kasey Anderson is."
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