Artist: Honey Harper
Album: Honey Harper & The Infinite Sky
Genre: Alt. Country, Americana
Release Date: 2022
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 96 kHz
Duration: 38:36
Total Tracks: 12
Total Size: 757 MB

Tracklist:

01. Honey Harper – Reflections (03:52)
02. Honey Harper – Ain’t No Cowboys In Georgia (02:32)
03. Honey Harper – Broken Token (02:38)
04. Honey Harper – One Thing (02:43)
05. Honey Harper – Tired of Feeling Good (03:17)
06. Honey Harper – The World Moves (03:47)
07. Honey Harper – Boots Mine Gold (03:11)
08. Honey Harper – Hard To Make A Living (03:20)
09. Honey Harper – Lake Song (03:09)
10. Honey Harper – Crystal Heart (03:39)
11. Honey Harper – Heaven Knows I Won’t Be There (04:02)
12. Honey Harper – Big Sky (02:21)

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Produced by Fussell and co-founder Alana Pagnutti and mixed by Joel Ford (Ford and Lopatin, Yes/And), Honey Harper and The Infinite Sky features the premiere of The Infinite Sky, a stacked backing band consisting of longtime bassist and contributing writer Mick Mayer, pianist John Carroll Kirby (Solange, Steve Lacy), Spoon keyboardist Alex Fischel, guitarist Jackson MacIntosh (Drugdealer, Jessica Pratt), pedal-steel player Connor Gallaher (Black Lips, Calexico), and TOPS drummer Riley Fleck.

Within the first few moments of the self-titled new album, Honey Harper and The Infinite Sky deliver a dashed-off statement on the trappings of country music. Despite the high level of conceptualization that went into its creation, the record embodies an irresistibly loose and groove-heavy sound that hits with an immediate impact. While previous album Starmaker was touted as “country music for people who don’t like country music,” Honey Harper & The Infinite Sky is “country music for everyone.”Honey Harper released his first four-track record, Universal Country, in 2017. Three years later, his debut album, Starmaker, confirmed the approach he was adopting: making country music for people who don’t necessarily listen to it. The idea was to deterritorialise the country genre by mixing up characteristics and references, severing it from its rural roots and helping it evolve and grow in the studio. After growing up in the southern United States as William Fussell (Honey Harper is a stage name made up of his grandmothers’ names), he later moved to Canada, then London, with stints in France to produce his songs with Sébastien Tellier. For this second album, Honey Harper aims for something simpler: to make country music accessible to everyone. It might not be revolutionary, but it’s an undeniable success. Recorded in Los Angeles, the album is the logical continuation of his previous release. With country at its core, faux cowboy Honey Harper adds soaring arrangements, pop romanticism and nightmarish atmospheres to the mix, creating music that seems to have more in common with the Milky Way than the plains of Texas. There’s nothing that new here, but the band demonstrates a scientific understanding of sound design, creating shifting musical landscapes that move away from standard country music. This is a cosmic album that will have you feeling weightless. – Stéphane Deschamps