After these past few years of writing, recording, working, pacing, scribbling, and ample time staring out the window, i’m feeling immensely proud to announce the release of the new album, “Appaloosa Bones”, which comes out august 18th. the first single, “The Fall,” , “Appaloosa Bones” is Isakov’s first album in five years, and it feels like a homecoming in more ways than one. Many of the musical textures which defined Isakov’s early corpus dominate his new record: spacious, grand pauses, uncomplicated stylistics, disarming sincerity and an unassuming, affecting joie de vivre. It’s not that his music is energizing or jumpy—often the opposite, really—it’s that it’s almost entirely free of cynicism, instead embracing the sort of romantic, humanist mindset that feels so far removed from 21st-century reality.
It’s a comforting thing, especially if you tie Isakov’s thematics with the lush Americana that girds his aesthetic landscape. He makes music for an uncorrupted country, one scattered with swaying fields and rushing brooks, straightforward heartbreaks and neatly-ending stories.
“The Fall”, debut single from the new album, “Appaloosa Bones”, coming August 18th
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