Hard Light

Description

Drop Nineteens is an inherently collaborative project. Ackell’s primarily the lyrics writer, and he collaborates with Zimmerman, Paula Kelley, Motohiro Yasue, and Peter Koeplin to create the sonic world. The record came together over the course of a year, recording at a patchwork of studios all around the country. Making music together felt natural, fluid, exciting. The guitar reverb is expansive as ever. Ackell and Kelley’s vocals are crystalline. ‘Scapa Flow,’ is triumphant. An excellent example of what a modern day Drop Nineteens song sounds like. The guitars glide like clouds on a blue sky day, drums shuffle in the background, searching. Ackell and Kelley’s vocals are cool toned and dreamy, bound up in a haze of reverb. It’s unquestionably lovely. You could say the same for the whole of the record. Hard Light is so lovely. A portrait of a band 30 years later, as talented and as dedicated to their craft as ever.

Tracklisting

Disc 1
1. Hard Light – Drop Nineteens
2. Scapa Flow – Drop Nineteens
3. Gal – Drop Nineteens
4. Tarantula – Drop Nineteens
5. The Price Was High – Drop Nineteens
6. Rose With Smoke – Drop Nineteens
7. A Hitch – Drop Nineteens
8. Lookout – Drop Nineteens
9. Another One Another – Drop Nineteens
10. Policeman Getting Lost – Drop Nineteens
11. T – Drop Nineteens