I started learning That's Enough, Let's Get You Home a while back
I can only get to the second verse without majorly screwing up but here I'll keep working on it
Also I don't wanna take sides in the war bc it's honestly stupid? But in the way that I love it's like summer camp beef. So faction me as you will, I think Hair Will Wood looks better in every scenario.
The publicity shy artist known as Sun Home Audio wafts airy threads of folk melody over serene acoustic picking, letting solar winds of electronic distortion blow into placid compositions for texture and drama. The opening salvo on this six-song EP, “An Unearthly Offering” is ethereal with an undercurrent of chaotic entropy. It seems to become what it is as you listen to it, taking shape out of a primordial sea of folk-leaning sound, then dissolving into hiss and static.
Sun Home Audio has not left much of a mark on the internet yet, just a single bandcamp page with a cryptic photo and bio. The artist apparently lives in Oregon, goes by the first name of Holt and is fond of his dog (see photo), and that is pretty much all we know. Oh yes, and Ben Chasny is a big fan, which makes sense, since this EP sounds very much in line with Six Organ’s softer, dreamier material. Sun Home Audio’s Holt sings in the same haunted, untethered way as Chasny, plays similar Takoma-style figures on his guitar and infuses astral mysteries into his work with subtle electronic textures.
The phrase “Bless Yr Heart” sounds simpler and more reassuring than it is. (In the south, it’s the verbal equivalent of “what an idiot you are.”) Likewise, the song of that name is pretty on the surface but complicated underneath. It begins in drone, a single note fraying into discord as it continues. Through this, the startling clarity of guitar breaks through, each note glistening like dew on a spider web. A flute (or synthesized equivalent) eddies past at one point, and a female backing singer breathes fragile phrases in support of the main vocal line. The song is still and lovely like calm water, but every so often, the artist tosses a disruptive pebble in: the distant turbulence of feedback, a squalling blare of synthesizer.
I find myself returning to “Inland Wealth,” which buries its beat among fuzz and echo, but has one nonetheless. The song feels more driving and purposeful than the other tracks on the album, a bit of lo-fi guitar pop embedded in its dreaming smoke rings, like an even ghostlier Tobin Sprout. “Will You Remember This Come the Dark?” whistles and shivers with atmosphere but leaves more space for the singing. It’s poised equidistant between folk and psychedelic experiment, a good bit like Alexander Tucker’s recent reveries. Both songs are reminders that, while Sun Home Audio has attracted the attention of Six Organs’ Chasny and certainly overlaps in significant ways with his oeuvre, that’s not all there is to this intriguing artist. Good stuff.
I’m So Afraid is Fleetwood Mac’s Comfortably Numb in terms of structure, emotion, and powerful guitar solos. Lindsey is so overlooked/underrated, and then you see this. I bet David Gilmour loves his playing.