Sturgill Simpson’s ‘Sound and Fury’ is his most left-field record yet. Read our review
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precisely the record anyone who has been paying any attention to his career over the last several years would have expected him to make. Over ten songs, Simpson leads his tight-knit rock quartet through a super-charged flow of indignant Southern Rock , strutting disco-boogie , and pulsing modern blues that do away with the typical melodic, structural conventions of country and folk. “A sleazy synth-rock dance record,” he’s called it.
When Simpson does sing, much of what he has to say is similarly self-referential. He’s angstier than ever on, plagued by his public platform, preoccupied with the way he’s been misunderstood and boxed in by an unforgiving music industry. Simpson sells such discontent with a fury that makes it seem as though he’s the first rockstar who’s ever had to deal with such problems. He’s “spent the last year burned out of [his] mind.” He’s “been pulled a million ways all at the same time/it’s enough to make anyone go insane.” Success and recognition, so it seems, have not been kind to the singer-songwriter.
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