Recorded in 2019 and released around a month ago, Open Door Policy is another album I have been sat on whilst I try and work out what track to go with.
I have gone with Unpleasant Breakfast. It is funky, groovy, fun and heart-breaking. I don't think they have another track like it in their back catalogue. This is the centrepiece of the album and one of a few standouts for me.
A vision of walking around and imagining my Walkman headphones were actually giant speakers accompanying me forcing the world into dancing and performing their tasks to my music. If I had giant speakers up in the sky blasting my own music then everywhere I went people would have to listen to my music and the world would have a uniform emotion, a sort of interconnectedness. Like an unrelenting soundtrack to which everyone must acquiesce… These are my speakers in the sky.
Thursday, 1 April 2021
The Hold Steady - Unpleasant Breakfast
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