If You're Not Listening To The New Sturgill Simpson Album On Repeat You Are An Absolute Buffoon

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I kinda just want to write the headline 50 more times and just be done with this blog because nothing else needs to be said. It’s Sturgill Simpson so obviously it’s awesome and obviously you’re an idiot if you’re not partaking in awesome things. That’s it. That’s the blog.

But, since he’s still a relatively under the radar guy (and by that I mean not super mainstream just critically acclaimed), I will take more words to tell you the dude just doesn’t miss. I’m not a huge music guy, I like silence when I walk and silence when I drive and silence in general, but I am a huge Sturgill Simpson guy. In the last 10 years there have probably been five albums I go back and listen to repeatedly, long after their newness and pop culture gravity has worn off: three of them are Sturgill Simpson (Francis and the Lights “Farewell Starlite” and Paul Williams “Surf Music” are the other two).

He’s just awesome. He’s always said that he doesn’t want to be put in a box as far as what kind of artist he is and this album is a perfect representation of that. It’s rock but it’s country but it’s got EDM synths but it’s funk but it’s got a fucking anime movie that goes along with it (available on Netflix). People have said it sounds like The Cars or Pink Floyd or Jackson Maine or a million different artists and I can see all of it, but it just sounds like Sturgill Simpson because he’s that awesome and funky.

I don’t even say funky but this album makes me want to say funky. It makes me want to pour a glass of bourbon while driving an old muscle car that also has a record player in it and take whatever kind of drugs people that say funky take.

Go listen to it and then, if you really want your nips blown off, watch the complimentary anime movie. It is completely, awesomely insane.