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Sonny & The Sunsets // Longtime Companion

Released 7.31.12 Polyvinyl

Sonny Smith recorded a country album after a breakup...When our tummies settle from the chuckle that incites, two things become clear:

  1. The drive to use steel guitar in the midst of pain must be innate
  2. A twang suits Sonny pretty well.Traditionally jangling, sunny pop (no pun intended), Sonny & The Sunsets are known for their tongue-in-cheek-edging-on-bizarre lyrics laid on a bed of straight forward, lo-fi melodies. Longtime Companion is a playful country-pop album that tones down Sonny’s wry whimsy, in favor of a general, but unrelatable string of ballads that make light of the emotions they portray. As always, he makes the real feel no-so-real; the painful, silly; and the familiar, bizarre. Longtime Companion is a great way to alienate your heartbreak.

 
Fun Fact: In 2010, Sonny wrote the music for the 100 Records art project. Starting in Sonny’s home town of San Francisco, the project commissioned 100 artists to create 100 fictional album covers & artists. Sonny then wrote 200 songs to go with the “albums,” an a side and a b side for each.

 

Recommended Tracks: Children of the Beehive (3), Year of The Cock (5), Pretend You Love Me (4), Sea of Darkness (8), Dried Blood (2)

 

-DJ Jurassica

Jessica has been in radio for 5 years, working for originally for the student radio station in Austin, Texas as DJ and Programming Manager. Jessica was an intern at KVNF in 2012 in the music department doing the folk and bluegrass shows, and did album reviews for the station during that time.
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