{"id":2624,"date":"2019-09-11T19:46:31","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T19:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/?p=2624"},"modified":"2019-09-11T19:46:31","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T19:46:31","slug":"greasy-grungy-forgone-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/2019\/09\/11\/greasy-grungy-forgone-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Greasy, Grungy, Forgone Country"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Miyamoto Musashi and a swaggy, punk rock muse meet for a night of boilermakers and bad decisions in dystopian Detroit. Nine months later behold, Sturgill Simpson\u2019s newest single and accompanying video, Sing Along<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The music video is a ronin-inspired retelling of Max Max. It features an unnamed samurai-like figure tearing through a dystopian metropolis and ravaging the establishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is one of nine anime short-flicks by Director Jumpei Mizusaki and Designer Takashi Okazaki that will comprise a Netflix film to be released on Sept. 27 alongside Simpson\u2019s newest record Sound and Fury<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The song\u2019s opening is pure electronica, a groove that could be featured on a Nintendo kung-fu game and four-on- the-floor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seven seconds in, Simpson\u2019s poetic lyrics and a cavalry of distorted guitars take point, charging full-speed into a place where the prettiest thing is \u201ca single strand of spider\u2019s weave\/Just dancing in the sun.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI can\u2019t go on living alone now that you\u2019re gone\/You done me wrong so here\u2019s your song\/Now sing along baby,\u201d Simpson growls through the chorus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This arrangement of words could be found in any done-me-wrong heartbreak song, but this isn\u2019t one of those songs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is undoubtable that the narrator is heartbroken, but spite fuels his words. The swagger is not lost to the listener. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Simpson has promised creative experimentation since leaping into the musical vanguard with his 2013 traditional country release High Top Mountain<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If 2014\u2019s Metamodern Sounds in Country Music<\/em> and 2016\u2019s Grammy Award-winning A Sailor\u2019s Guide to Earth<\/em> were evidence that the musical iconoclast meant what he said, Sing Along is Simpson banging his gavel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an August press release, Simpson described the vision for his upcoming release. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe went in without any preconceived notions and came out with a really sleazy, steamy rock \u2018n\u2019 roll record. It\u2019s definitely my most psychedelic. And also, my heaviest. I had this idea that it\u2019d be really cool to animate some of these songs, and we ended up with a futuristic, dystopian, post-apocalyptic, samurai film.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sing Along<\/em> is greasy, grungy and far from the country music that helped Simpson gain notoriety. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Sept. 27 fans will have the opportunity to see where the new single fits into his rock \u2018n\u2019 roll samurai concept via Netflix  and anywhere music is streamed. 
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