…Doom Country is Hudson Freeman’s first album with a label — Mom+Pop, whose small but mighty roster holds indie darlings like Courtney Barnett and Flume, as well as artists who, like Freeman, have gone exceptionally viral (Tiny Habits, Ashe). He’s described the record as a “personal, post-apocalyptic road trip album through America.” Perhaps the title and description speak to the album’s genre as well as its subject, though not much of this record falls into the “country” genre (though much can be said for “doom”).
A road trip, though — that takes restlessness, a running away from something as well as a running towards. The state of being on the road is one of curious limbo; Kerouac described it as having “nothing behind me, everything…

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