A catch-up on a superb fourth rock, pop and psychedelic album released earlier this year by the US artist, the title after regular winter cold-plunges into a nearby creek at his Catskill Mountains home to create fuzzy, warm, live-feel 60s/70s sound of the era George Harrison or Harry Nilsson. He was joined in recording sessions by friends including Liam Kazar, Sean Mullins, El Kempner of Palehound and Adrianne Lenker of Big Thief. Wild Days is a gorgeous, majestic opener, one of euphoric melancholy and a central guitar line. Jacket has a Beatles-esque quality in sound and vocals: “It’s never too late, dear / to say that we’re forever more,” as does Runaway Wild, though leaning more towards a Lennon piano number. Why Does It Take So Long has a 70s glam rock boogie feel, Freakz is a ploddy, woozy psychedelia, Another Way as a great guitar sound reminiscent of Harrison, while steel guitar closer Stay is a moving number written to his Dad, a a two-time cancer survivor, still makes music at 74, and sonically this album touches on a lot of music Sam and his father listened to and played together in Sam’s childhood homes, and giving Plunge a broader sense of life-affirmation. So dive in, and turn back the clock to 1974. Out on on Flying Cloud Recordings via Thirty Tigers.
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