Jake Bugg is an upbeat indie-rock musician from England, touring on his most recent 2017 release "Hearts That Strain." Shuffling, playlisting and cherry-picking your favourite songs is all well and good, but sometimes you can't beat sitting down with an album and playing it from start to finish. An album that sounds like it was recorded in one room, with the same group of people and that perfectly captures a specific moment in time.
Jake Bugg's last album, 2016's On My One, was a dizzyingly eclectic collection of styles and sounds, but for the follow up, the 23-year-old wanted something that felt like the LPs that took pride of place in his own record collection. Albums take you into their own, sealed world. "On the last album it was fun to experiment with different instruments and writing styles," reflects Bugg. "But this time around I just wanted to make a complete record as opposed to a collection of songs. Just write the tunes and record them with great musicians."
He's certainly got his wish for Hearts That Strain. Starting in January this year, Bugg would write songs at home then fly out to Nashville to record them with some of the best players in the history of popular music. As part of American Sound Studio's legendary house band The Memphis Boys, Gene Chrisman and Bobby Woods provided the chops on such pivotal records as Dusty In Memphis, In The Ghetto, Suspicious Minds and Dark End Of The Street, cutting their teeth in sessions with Wilson Pickett, Aretha Franklin and Dionne Warwick.
"I just like putting out records," reflect Bugg with characteristic understatement. "I like making albums, I like listening to albums. If you listen to a lot of those classic records throughout each track you can tell that it's recorded in the same place. It's nice to have that consistency." It seems reports of the album's death have been greatly exaggerated.
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