Johnny Blue Skies - Passage du Desir - Album Review
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.พ. 2025
- For this album review, Sturgill Simpson takes on a new alias / "persona" in a drifting, soft rock malaise full of questions of identity and lost connections.
Best Songs: 'Jupiter’s Faerie’, ‘One For The Road’, ‘Who I Am’, ‘Swamp of Sadness’
Worst Song: ‘Mint Tea'
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Johnny Blue Skies (Sturgill Simpson) - Passage Du Desir - Album Review (country / soft rock)
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It's rare that I love every song on an album, but this is one. It really hits my heart.
I personally loved the album.
I am slowly falling in love with this album. It's definitely taken a couple listens
It's been 2 months. Hope you've seen live videos of the tour. He is singing just as strong as before.
Damn what did Sturgill do to hurt you?
Reviewers really just say anything
Funny this goes up today as I'm putting my Midyear Best Of video together. I actually loved this album and I was so curious to know what you thought of it. Now I know. Haha!
you didn't ask but we miss you at dehh man, you practically raised me with the amount of times i'd watch you rant about records on there but i'm always tuned in at your channel cause that practically raised me too haha! where can i vote for you to talk about nah's record; mortal glitch? and have you listened to coin locker kid? i would love to vote for that too since its some crazy experimental shit you might love!
@@gombocdimensional9050 Oh that's really sweet of you to say! Thank you, friend. Sometimes I miss being on there too but I think the guys have it held down without me. If I stuck around there I would have, eventually, burned out worse and ruined the dynamic of the show. But I'll pop on here and there. As far as voting on albums I took that away from my Patreon cuz I didn't wanna take folks' money and not fulfill the videos. But once I get my life back to normal I'll prob bring that back. And I don't know either of those albums but I'll look into them!
@@mykectown sorry for the late reply and i get that man, you had a great couple of years on there so its always okay to take a break to move on to bigger and better things! and its okay, i'm just happy to know that you might check out the nah record and coinlocker kid (rapper and producer). you don't have to but it would be real cool to see someone on youtube talk about them cause no one so far has but no pressure, i don't use the internet much so who am i to tell you to log in haha.
11 minutes and 56 seconds of bad takes
It’s my album of the year, hope it grows on you too
I fall more in love with this record with every listen. It's a masterpiece.
this isn't an album review as much as it is this guy's judgement of his 'perception' of another man's intent...
This whole album is fantastic! Are you sure you are reviewing the art or the person who made it? It seems you can't separate them. 😢
Yeah the fact that he cares that he's living in Paris is crazy
My favorite country album of 2024
Sturgill can’t be compared to anyone though not even himself he’s keeping true to himself and always stressing his comforts it’s an album meant to make you feel and that’s what matters
Maybe I am a fanboy, but I absolutley love this album...more with every listen. My wife (wasn't a fan prior) loves this album. Loves.
Just because you talk like a music critic podcast online music officianado spitting what you think are insightful insider nuggets that really anyone with access to Google could locate, doesn’t make you one. In fact in this instance you have shown us one thing, it’s that you have absolute garbage taste in music. Might I suggest trying to unlock the hidden intricacies of Morgan Wallen or Dan and Shay, I’m thinking that would be more your speed.
Considering I've panned both of them way harder than the largely mild critique I've given Sturgill Simpson, after being the one critic on this website who was reviewing him in 2014, you can kindly kiss my ass.
I actually loved this. But Dood is my favorite of his by far. I know I'm an outlier there, but I can listed to that any day.
A good dog on the ground's worth 3 in the saddle, no matter where you're from.
“If The Sun Never Rises Again” reminds me of “How Much I Feel” by Ambrosia.
I like it. He stated he didn't want to sound like Waylon. I'm sure he doesn't care what you think.
i’ve only ever just been aware of this guy’s existence, i might listen to it eventually, we’ll see. really freaking excited for the video essay.
Confirmed: Spectrum Pulse and Anthony Fantano are united in their hatred of Steely Dan! (I can only tolerate them one song at a time; I wish their fans stopped referring to them as a rock band. They don’t kick any amount of ass. They are just a smooth prog pop band.)
I haven’t enjoyed any Simpson project since his two bluegrass albums in 2020. It’s frustrating to see him embark on these classic rock detours when all I want is another grandiose, orchestral country album like A Sailor’s Guide to Earth.
On a side note, my favorite country album of 2024 is Charley Crockett’s retro-flavored $10 Cowboy. He’s got such a commanding voice and a talent for hooks. I’m surprised that it’s gotten so few reviews.
I actually liked this way more than Stapleton's latest that's for sure!
I think harping on the vocals despite Simpson's recent injury betrays a broader uncharitability in your reading--- framing it as a matter of "either can't or won't" elides the many moments that point, imo pretty decisively, to "can't". Of course if you just don't like dad rock then it is what it is, but I wish you could be a little more specific about where and why the romantic vagabond narrative stops working for you
@@KompyCalpestare I think saying that this particular vocal delivery doesn't really work for me but makes sense in context of the album isn't exactly "harping", but where the romantic vagabond narrative stops working for me is quite simple: he's got three kids at home in the States, and you don't just get the benefit of drawing on that distance for tragedy if you conveniently exclude the stuff that looks bad for a grown ass man in his mid-40s, which a lot of acts don't have the privilege to ignore.
@SpectrumPulse well, I reckon we probably differ most saliently in how sympathetic a figure Simpson needs to be for the narrative to work for us, then. If he's a deadbeat dad or a bad husband or whatever else, I struggle to see how "privilege" figures in the equation of how his art reflects or doesn't reflect that-- don't all artists have the privilege of telling their side of the story, of lying to their audience about who they really are?
...kind of funny that I'm literally just reiterating what I said in my review here: because the average woman artist who would do less would get ripped to shreds for it - the Emily Scott Robinson example where she handles the hypothetical strain has way more pathos. That's a privilege to ignore it that Sturgill has, to even just dodge the conversation by not putting it in his music.
And to go a step further, Sturgill is also smart enough to not frame himself as a "good guy" on this album... but that's the tricky thing, he's still playing for empathy I any romantic framing, the tortured artist, which I'm even more willing to accept if it's just a relationship on the rocks. When you get to his age and put kids in it, I'm less charitable, even as I can acknowledge the escapist fantasy here
@@SpectrumPulselol dude if you don't respect my time enough to not just reiterate your review at me then you don't HAVE to respond.
@@SpectrumPulsewhy do you care so much? Judge the art dummy
I didn't know it was possible to need Noxzema and Rogaine at the same time!
I appreciate your honest review. I actually really enjoyed the album. That being said, I am a soft rock 40+...haha!
I feel this honestly. Liked the album, but Sturgill has made better records. It definitely feels forced at times.
Hey, remember when Kygo made your best hit list back in 2017? Well, he's released a new album this year. As a bit of an EDM junkie, I think it would be really cool if you did a review of that.
I loved the album
this review is horrible.
thanks just the same.
Can you Please do a review on Normani's debut album "Dopamine"
I don’t fully understand why he would put out something so lackadaisical. And it’s shocking that so many on social media are saying “best album of ‘24” or “greatest country album of the year.” Country isn’t even what he was going for so how can someone tie it to that genre. And why is he away from his family? Cuz he’s lost? Sounds like it.
Please just stop doing album reviews
@@yeager1888 lol no
Damn. Did we listen to the same album? lmao
It was definitely on the mid and one of Simpson's disappointing albums of 2024
Wrong
I like Steely Dan. This album doesn't even come close.