Conner Youngblood - Cheyenne (2018) Japanese Release
Conner Youngblood - Cheyenne (2018) Japanese Release
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 320 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 135 Mb | Scans included
Alternative/Indie, Indie Folk, Ambient | Label: Counter/Beat | # BRC-578 | 00:55:41
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 320 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 135 Mb | Scans included
Alternative/Indie, Indie Folk, Ambient | Label: Counter/Beat | # BRC-578 | 00:55:41
Following the praise around his The Generation of Lift EP and a number of critically acclaimed singles, Nashville-based multi-instrumentalist Conner Youngblood is back to announce his long awaited debut album Cheyenne due via Counter Records. Along with the announcement, Youngblood shares a striking visual for his first single off the new project, "The Birds of Finland".
Comprised of 13 tracks, Youngblood's debut album is the culmination of two years of extensively seeing the world, resulting in a record that involves travel and nature, but also the grounding aspects of the people Youngblood has encountered along the way. Whether it's what Youngblood humbly puts down as "musical ADHD" or sheer talent - Cheyenne is the work of a musical polymath. Where most musicians are relatively happy with picking up a guitar and sailing away on a few chords, Youngblood can be found darting from one instrument to the next. Cheyenne features no less than 30 different instruments - a harp, a bass clarinet, a tabla, and more - all of which are played by Youngblood on a record featuring no guests.
While his sound is definitively his own, his debut takes cues from an array of artists including multi-instrumentalists Sufjan Stevens and Elliott Smith as well as the beautiful melodics of singer-songwriter Moses Sumney and Justin Vernon of Bon Iver. Youngblood's music has been championed loudly by Zane Lowe who proclaims him "a brilliant artist" and has received resounding support from Radio 1's Annie Mac as well as BBC 6 Music's Lauren Laverne and Gilles Peterson. Since The Generation of Lift EP he has played shows across the globe supporting the likes of Janelle Monae and touring with Angus & Julia Stone, Milky Chance and SOHN, he performed to a rapt crowd at Field Day festival in London earlier this month and released several collaborative singles with singer-songwriter Nylo leading the Observer to recently proclaim Youngblood as their "one to watch".
The visual accompanying "The Birds of Finland" was directed by Johannes Greve Muskat and was shot in Finland, where he eventually traveled after completing the song. Youngblood shares a little about the concept and how it all came together, noting "I had always been in love with the idea of bird watching and had always wanted to go to Finland. It just took me writing the song first, to eventually do both of those things. Once we got the camera and a rental car, we basically made up a route across Lapland-from Finland to Norway-and tried to capture everything we encountered along the way. It was incredible and incredibly cold."
The ambient, intimate debut from singer Conner Youngblood uses layered folk impressionism to evoke the kinds of feelings that elude easy definition.
Unlike the old saying, Conner Youngblood doesn’t write what he knows. He is a 28-year-old Yale graduate, born in Dallas and currently living in Nashville. You would not, however, learn that information—or anything that describes his personal lifestyle—from listening to his full-length debut Cheyenne. “I tried to write songs about chicks… and I think it’s just kind of boring,” he once quipped, eschewing the need to fit what might be on his mind into his work. Instead, Youngblood creates ambient folk soundscapes—songs that blossom gently with intricate musical details and enigmatic lyrics.
He sings with the intimacy of a bedroom artist whose eyes are focused solely out the window at something a bit too far away to make out. Cheyenne, as a result, is impressionistic—when you look closer and closer, it’s not as astounding as it is from a distance. But he imbues these songs with a sensory feeling—like he’s figuring out an event’s significance simply by recalling whatever tiny memories stick in his head. A track like “Los Angeles” sets only a bit of the scene in the actual city. He recalls some moments (“Wednesday morning/Miss an early flight”) and an ever-telling “she,” but it’s largely ambiance. What’s more telling is the contrast between Youngblood’s hushed half-falsetto and a melody that occasionally soars with piano and horns; a tambourine shakes forcefully throughout. There’s something or someone he misses, but he does not seem to be sure how it affects him. The track exists as its own realm for contemplation. And that area is probably not really in Southern California.
The contrast between a real location and its role on Cheyenne is even sharper on “The Birds of Finland” and “Stockholm,” songs Youngblood said he wrote before ever visiting Scandinavia. “I’m a lot of times influenced by places I’ve never been, and just, like, imagining what the place could be like, and writing my version of it,” Youngblood said in 2016. On the triumphant “The Birds of Finland,” Youngblood names a variety of birds: the wren, the hooded crow, the eider. Here, he allows his voice to boom through echoes, as if to suggest he’s more comfortable transposing his thoughts onto birds than speaking them directly.
It’s difficult not to think of Bon Iver. Youngblood’s disappearing voice resembles Justin Vernon’s, and there is a similar bent toward the fake-world-building of Bon Iver. But where Vernon sang verbosely on songs like “Michicant,” rendering a fake place real, Youngblood does the opposite, turning the Swedish capital, for instance, into a figment of his mind. In this light, it is hard to glean much from Youngblood’s lyrics. On “Stockholm,” he repeats the title through an opaque lens and adds few other tangible lines.
Even without a specific time or place—because “Stockholm” is certainly not set in Stockholm—the song resonates. Conner Youngblood’s words fade away and slowly embed themselves into your mind like an already distant memory. His lyrics typically range from bluntly simple to esoteric to borderline nonsensical. On “Lemonade” alone, he sings lines as disparate as “I’m human francium” and “Let me be your lemonade.” There may not be much behind the abstractions, or at least nothing Youngblood chooses to reveal, but they’re connected by an overarching idea that truth exists in feeling and sense, not literal meaning. In this way, Cheyenne is both pleasant and precious: an album that embodies impressionism and idealism and asks for little in return beyond an open mind and a willingness to see the forest through the trees. Even when the picture is still coming into focus.Review by Matthew Strauss, Pitchfork.com
Conner Youngblood - Cheyenne (2018) Japanese Release
Tracklist:
01. Cheyenne (1:54)
02. Los Angeles (3:43)
03. Lemonade (3:18)
04. The Birds of Finland (4:48)
05. Stockholm (3:12)
06. VP (An Interlude) (1:40)
07. 12 lbs (3:49)
08. Red.23 (7:24)
09. My Brother's Brother (4:35)
10. Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge (4:31)
11. Sulphur Springs (3:31)
12. Pizza Body (5:09)
13. Yellowknife (4:43)
14. Pink Lemonade (3:24)
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Conner Youngblood - Cheyenne (2018) Japanese Release
