{"id":6569,"date":"2018-02-19T13:21:04","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T18:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/?p=6569"},"modified":"2018-02-27T12:49:56","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T17:49:56","slug":"s-carey-hundred-acres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/s-carey-hundred-acres\/","title":{"rendered":"S. Carey <br>Hundred Acres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/S_Carey-Hundred_Acres.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6571\" src=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/S_Carey-Hundred_Acres.jpg\" alt=\"S. Carey, Hundred Acres\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/S_Carey-Hundred_Acres.jpg 250w, https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/S_Carey-Hundred_Acres-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>S. Carey certainly has a light touch. Most of the sounds on <i>Hundred Acres<\/i> (Jagjaguwar)\u2014from his vocals to the drums\u2014seem to be drifting by on the wind. Not that the album is without momentum. Take \u201cTrue North\u201d as a good example. The melody is all long, slow chord changes, but a syncopated shaker and snare figure keeps you curious, and that jumpy pulse makes sure the track doesn\u2019t get too languorous. It\u2019s the difference between taking a nap under your favorite tree and spending the day in the leaves, smiling at the sun. The best songs here are the ones that keep it just that simple. The title track and \u201cFools Gold\u201d both gather fervor, but they don\u2019t go for bombast the way \u201cHave You Stopped to Notice\u201d and \u201cMore I See\u201d do. The latter two are both a bit overly manipulative, though I don\u2019t doubt the honesty of Carey\u2019s zeal. This is music for long days in forgotten valleys where no one will find you.<\/p>\n<p>The touchstones are familiar, maybe overly so: Iron &amp; Wine, Sufjan Stevens, and Bon Iver (for which Carey fills the twin roles of drummer and supporting vocalist). So if you\u2019re hung up on whether this guy\u2019s an original, maybe check out his earlier albums, which include a lot more piano and wander a little further from the formula. It would, in fact, be very easy to be cynical about this record. The album art is a hazy photo of a perfect tree overlooking a pond. The title is a woodsy Winnie the Pooh reference. 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