Album Rating: 4.0

eh if you think about Gira's cowboy alter-ego....it almost makes sense

Album Rating: 4.5

I definitely saw him more recently w. Okkervil River which only makes slightly more sense but I was trashed and don't remember it

Album Rating: 4.5

Strawberry Lite is so good. He's so good at making songs completely shift their tone while still feeling cohesive. They start out with this trippy, mystical sort of sound and then morph into a catchy hook. The Day It Rained Forever is another example of that.

Album Rating: 4.0

the day it rained forever is very nice

Album Rating: 5.0

every song here rules honestly

Album Rating: 4.5

there's not a bad song on it

Album Rating: 4.0

something relative has been this year's andromeda by weyes blood from last year for me. repeeeeeat

Album Rating: 4.5

"there's not a bad song on it" honestly tempted to 5. i feel so much when i listen to it

I'm gonna join on this train, amazing first listen.

Album Rating: 4.0

his EP is pretty great too, quick listen. Recommend to anyone who is enjoying this

Album Rating: 4.0

checked out the ep was super solid



checked this and its nice to hear the evolution and how he can deliver across a longer project, definitely someone who i think can grow exponentially with time

Album Rating: 4.0

yeah I'm excited to see what he can do next. hopefully this puts him on the radar a little bit

Looks like he's touring in October (if corona permits) in the UK and writing new songs. At only £10 a ticket it's a steal, can't wait.

Album Rating: 4.5

Does this album have an element of country to it, or is it just alternative music sung with a bit of a southern accent? Makes me wonder what actually defines country. Great album either way though.

Album Rating: 4.5

I mean, the vocals are one of the least country aspects of this. Musically it's definitely very country. Don't take this the wrong way, but I do find that a lot of rock/folk listeners tend to underestimate just how much territory and influence those genres share with country, and vice versa.

that album cover tho

Album Rating: 4.5

So what exactly defines country from a musical standpoint BoneyKing? Genuinely curious. Cause I like this and some other country-ish stuff, but never heard a straight up country album I really liked other than maybe Laura Cantrell

Album Rating: 4.0

"I mean, the vocals are one of the least country aspects of this"

nah mate definitely not....if it weren't for the twang, most of this would just be indie/folk

Album Rating: 4.5

That’s just my point though - this is definitely on the line between folk and country but that just points out how similar the two are. Maybe I’m just desensitized to it but I don’t hear much twang in his voice, I mean compare him with the Willie Nelsons and the Waylon Jennings, or Sturgill Simpson and Jason Isbell for some modern ones. The melodies, though, are very country, just not the voice itself per se.

As far as ColeT’s question is concerned, it’s kind of hard to define. Country developed as a style alongside blues and American folk music so it shares a lot with those styles. Early rock drew a lot from the blues so country shares that lineage. Some of the characteristics of country are pretty surface-level; it’s between rock and folk in that it often uses a mix of acoustic and electric guitars (but you can have country that’s all acoustic or all electric). If electric there’s usually twang in the effects, but country guitar can be pretty overdriven as well. Steel guitar, lap or pedal, to my ears at least, is pretty much *the* country instrument, most stuff that has it sounds at least a little country to me (this album specifically has quite a bit), but you can certainly have country without it, and folk will often use it too. Other instruments (that again overlap with folk a lot): Mandolin, banjo, dulcimer. Then there’s certain stuff that’s hard for me to define because I don’t know music theory but that I know when I hear it; certain types of melodic phrasings and chord progressions (there’s a joke that the old saying that punk is “three chords and the truth” also applies to country). The point here is that country is very similar to folk and rock (and blues) in a lot of important ways, but for whatever reason it’s often viewed less favorably by fans of the former genres (folk and rock musicians, I find, tend to be much more accepting of country than their fans are) and I think that often leads people to discount the range of the genre.

Album Rating: 5.0

Boney you should write a piece about the lineage of various genres. I found just your comment alone pretty insightful and educational.