Album Review: The Lumineers III Is Folk Perfection
Do I love The Lumineers? YES! Do I love their new album, III, out September 13? YES!!!!!! The Lumineers have this uncanny ability to make folk songs sound like pop ones. They take the stringed sensibilities and emotional sensitivities of Americana music and, somehow, make it feel like Top 40/ mainstream radio. In III, they continue to make quietness and self-reflection feel like constant desires.
Do we really enjoy silence? Do we really want to sit down and look out how we are living? I’ll be honest….. not really. Silence is both beautiful and terrifying because she speaks, and, in that perspective III thrives. From “Gloria” to “Life In Denver,” you feel like you hearing the thoughts of someone that never spoke until one day they decided to have a voice. You ever experienced that? Seeing someone, who never talks, suddenly make a powerful, new comment? At times, we are that “someone,” but it out life we decide to turn into a statement.
The Lumineers – Leader Of The Landslide (Part 5 Of 10)
Accompanied by a short film, III melodically fun and lyrically thoughtful by completely aiming for a “let’s get out of this town” vibe, which permeates throughout folk music. If country music is consistently singing about turning away from that “city life,” folk music is about heading straight for it. Yet, both find their heart in the calmed, picturesque roots of the country-side. Hence, their perspectives deviate from those that want to meet so many people and those that can make due with just 2 or 3 familiar faces. The Lumineers sing to meeting everyone and so that you can find your “ones.” Moreover, Schultz sounds like the Kurt Cobain of the indie folk scene.
The Lumineers – Donna (Part 1 Of 10)
Similar to the Nirvana icon, he has a way of graveling his voice as if he picks up his notes from the backyard before he goes into the singing booth. It is hard not to love such an earthy tone and texture in a voice, especially for folk music. While most genres are about sonically reaching to Heaven or utopia, folk music feels like a genre where euphoria lies in your home. With chanting hooks and hypnotically repeated choruses, III makes you want to sit on Life’s porch and see who walks in to build a home with you. Hence, III feels like The Lumineers full settlement into their virtuous sound. It is a humble, harvested record that if someone told me was grown in a crop field before packaged as song collection, I would believe it.. For More Information On The Lumineers III Click Here.
The Lumineers – Left For Denver (Part 6 Of 10)
