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Alternative, Americana, indie.

It's already easy to imagine S.G. Goodman's third album feeling like a classic 20 years from now. You can practically hear the energy sparking off Planting by the Signs—the ones that mark this as a document of a musician assuredly hitting an elevated stride. The kind given off by Freakwater's Old Paint and Lucinda Williams' Sweet Old World, two albums that, with their wonderfully raw quality, feel like ancestors of Planting by the Signs. 

Goodman herself has cited Sheryl Crow and Stevie Nicks as influences, and you can hear both in the excellent "Fire Sign," a song that sounds straight from some otherworldly disco where pitch-dark Americana and swaggering rock 'n' roll co-exist. And, like her fellow Kentuckian Tyler Childers (who memorably covered her great song "Space and Time"), Goodman draws from the Christian hymns of her rural childhood and has called them "more influential to me than anybody out there, just in their melodies." You can hear it in the tender "Solitaire," which references "In the Sweet By and By," and the lighthearted rapturousness of "I'm in Love"—about how love can turn your life upside down—but it's not all moonbeams and rainbows. "I've been crying at commercials on the hotel television set/ I've been lying on my taxes, writing off the things that I ain't bought yet/ RSVPed to invitations knowing in my heart that I'll never show," Goodman sings, her twang rocky with gravel even when she hits the songbird notes. 

She sometimes applies a mischievous lilt, as on "I Can See the Devil," a soulful blues rascal with a fadeout ending and Beck's Mellow Gold vibe (across the board, Matt Pence's drumming is stalwart). Restless "Satellite," meanwhile, makes you wonder what Lana Del Rey might sound like stripped of every artifice. Guitarist and producer Matthew Rowan joins Goodman for a gorgeous duet on the title track, and Bonnie "Prince" Billy applies a layer of worn velveteen to the harmonies of "Nature's Child," a cover of North Carolina musician Tyler Ladd's song. It's a beaut, but Goodman doesn't need to rely on anyone else's songwriting. The title of her third album nods to the old Southern way of living—be it planting a garden or weaning a baby—in accordance with the moon's cycles. It proves rich fodder for the storyteller lyrics of "Snapping Turtle," which uses a tale about rescuing a reptile from kids "beating the hell out of it" as a metaphor for escaping the constraints of a hardscrabble rural life. 

Eight-minute-long album closer "Heaven Song" finds the narrator setting out to look for heaven, picking up a hitchhiker named Love and asking her to ride shotgun because "I never cared much for love behind me or on the run."

Tracks:
01 Satellite
02 Fire Sign
03 I Can See the Devil
04 Snapping Turtle
05 Michael Told Me
06 Solitaire
07 I'm in Love
08 Nature's Child
09 Heat Lightning
10 Planting by the Signs
11 Heaven Song

Staat er compleet op, 10% pars mee gepost. Met zeer veel dank aan de originele poster. Laat af en toe eens weten wat je van het album vindt. Altijd leuk, de mening van anderen. Oh ja, MP3 doe ik niet aan.

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