Nashville-by-way-of-Philly musician Langhorne Slim has released more than half a dozen records blending folk, Americana, and the occasional indie-pop song. But five years after Strawberry Mansion — a deeply personal, post-pandemic record that in part documented his journey to sobriety, delivered through often delicately beautiful musical movements — he has found his way to a louder amp and strapped on an electric guitar for his next offering.
Appropriately enough, he’s tapped producer Sam F. Kiszka, whose group Greta Van Fleet is one of the biggest guitar bands of the past decade. The result is a surprisingly natural evolution for Slim, keeping his deep lyrics at the core of these songs.
Even the recording process was a step out…