…Home Is Where have unexpectedly found themselves amidst a rising tide of artists pivoting out of punk into alt-country — or, at the very least, the raw elements of alt-country. The band who invented the deeply, deeply online fifth-wave emo taxonomy has spent the past three years immersed in the canon of Neil Young, Flying Burrito Brothers, and Gram Parsons, while recognizing that Alan Jackson might belong there, too. It’s very possible that “Chattahoochee” inspired MacDonald to make a chorus out of “Loxahatchee” on “The Wolf Man,” though the feral nature and suburban dullness of an uncaged safari park in West Palm Beach makes for a perfect Home Is Where image in its own right.
Their pivot is surprising in its extent, rather than its direction. Whether it was the honking…
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