Add Date: July 4
Artist: Lee Bains III & the Glory Fires
Album: Youth Detention (Nail My Feet Down to the Southside of Town)
Label: Don Giovanni
Genre: Alt-country, alt-rock
Comments: From the onesheet: "[T]he third full-length by Lee Bains III & the Glory Fires... is the band's most ambitious work to date -- a sprawling and visceral record given to both deep introspection and high-volume spiritual uplift... The Glory Fires' music draws deeply from punk, but also soul, power pop, country, and gospel; equal parts careful curation and geographic inheritance... The songs are deeply rooted in Bains' experience of his hometown, Birmingham, AL. Youth Detention depicts a Southern city in the decades surrounding the turn-of-the-millennium: in the throes of white flight, urban disinvestment, racial tension, class struggle, gentrification, gender policing, homophobia, xenophobia, religious fervor, deindustrialization, and economic upheaval. The songs on Youth Detention are meant as small acts of resistance to those systems."
Recommended Tracks: 5, 11, 16, 12
DNP: 1, 4, 6, 10
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