Order your hard copy of You Cant Outrun The Radio from Waterbug Records: Kicking off with a chugging bassline from a lost 60s spy movie, You Cant Outrun The Radio is a wild ride where ten songs smolder and spark between elements of intimacy and escape, freedom and self-destruction, destiny and chance. Creatures human and otherwise flee from their natural limits in the midst of infinity. Byrd tells their stories well. Byrd and his ace team run from Rockabilly (.38 Baby) to classic country (“Starlight”) to hard core Harry Smith Americana (Poor Johnny). From the midst of these familiar sounds rises “Pale Rider,” building itself backwards to present a death-driven landscape. “Working Offshore,” another of Byrd’s greatest songs, portrays what it takes on the human level to provide the energy celebrated in “Mama’s Got Wheels” and “A Big Truck Brought It.” Weird America persists, Byrd suggests, reaching down into Mexico (“Slip Away”), up through Canada and out into space (“Close Enough to Touch”). Powerful and provocative, You Cant Outrun The Radio references Byrd’s earlier explorations without repeating them.
Posted on: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 17:40:44 +0000
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