On their eighth album, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit (JasonIsbell) find beauty and rage in the everyday. Read ellen_a_johnson's review of 'Weathervanes,' our Album of the Week:
are full of life’s highest highs and lowest lows, which means they contain some of Isbell’s most personal and effective songs.Weathervanes
He studies the ordinary again on “Middle of the Morning,” which is about finding enough energy to not only swing your legs out of bed in the morning but also move through the day without losing your mind and snapping at a loved one, all through the lens of a particular kind of pandemic-flavored fatigue: “Yes I’m tired and by the middle of the morning I’m out of shit to say.”only exists in the space between your morning cup of coffee and school pickup.
Family is on the mind again during “Vestavia Hills,” which balances the tension between wanting to build a home life, answering the demands of rigorous touring and, ultimately, being stuck in the Birmingham suburbs. The seven-minute scorcher “Miles,” too, examines the distress of being apart from family as time moves by at lightning speed.
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