{"product_id":"nice-time-on-earth-today","title":"Nice Time on Earth Today","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNice Time on Earth Today\u003c\/i\u003e, the third full-length release from the Oslo- based Norwegian American Sadgrass wonder-group Buster Sledge, runs the gamut of both American folk and popular music styles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Though in this way the musical backdrop is continuously shifting, the text is always up- front and delivered via a hummable melody. Moments of reckless abandon and maximalism explode through unexpected chord changes, grandiose arrangements and wild solos while the backdrop remains tightly knitted and controlled-but not too much of anything of course! Balancing aesthetics is core to the artistic agenda of this band. The title of the album captures with a tongue in the cheek the modus operandi of their lyrical style, a sort of bluegrass\/ folk- inspired dark humor and levity (e.g. sad lyrics in a happy-sounding song) where the narrator seems to be suffering but also to view themselves suffering with an ironic distance, let's call it stoic melancholicana, and ideally with leave you with a couple verbal and sonic things to reflect on. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBuster Sledge is an acoustic chamber-quartet of four voices, fiddle, banjo, guitar and contrabass fronted by a Californian living in Norway and backed by three Norwegians of diverse musical backgrounds, all with a shared love for traditional American music. The band creates a contemporary twist on music steeped in tradition through an original repertoire of music that brings the structure and pop- esque melodic focus of American old- time fiddle music as well as the lyrical meter and storytelling focus of old mountain-ballads and country songs together with modern harmonic and lyrical elements from rap, pop and jazz. These are some of the ways the group engages with the age- old tradition of recycling paraphrased archetypes into a new generation of expressions.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heilo","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50393599410507,"sku":"2049476","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/7033662074068_00a518ff_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726421995","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/products\/nice-time-on-earth-today","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}