Corridor Johnson

Haymaker

The File Machine

Jun 22, 2023
Net Unique

By Kat Ramkumar

The hazy and languid Haymaker is the debut album from Austin-based indie rockers Corridor Johnson. The band, named after a fabled Farmer Corridor and Farmer Johnson (by no means having met the 2), test off all of the containers that make neo-indie rock music, effectively, neo and indie and rock. Crashing drums? Examine. A melancholy voice crooning lyrics of rising pains? Examine. A bass conserving regular time, reminding everybody else that there’s extra to return? Additionally test. However the band have grown during the last couple years they’ve been making music, they usually’re right here to inform us all about it. It’s nearly a yearbook of types.

Haymaker was produced by Charles Dahlke (The Brazen Youth) and was written in a month when band members Milo Cortese (vocals, guitar), Logan Krupovage (vocals, percussion), Brandon Worth (vocals, guitar), and Trevor Stovall (bass) have been residing on their producer’s farm. Turning to one another for firm and inspiration, the band construct off one another’s tales and switch them into picturesque crowd pleasers.

The opening observe “Barefoot” does its job completely. It has a gradual, tantalizing guitar buildup that bursts in colourful unison lyrics. You’re immediately transported again to your highschool bed room the place you’re laying on the ground together with your legs up on the wall, questioning what’s to return. Corridor Johnson are dreamers they usually take listeners alongside for the imaginative and prescient with them.

The quite a few crescendos peppered all through varied songs equivalent to “OMWO,” “Artwork Museum,” and “Related,” show the band’s novice, but skillful musicality—they transfer with their music. Corridor Johnson aren’t afraid to juxtapose the traditional indie rock album with slower songs both. Tracks equivalent to “Cynical,” “Much less Is Extra,” and the acoustic led “Solar Don’t Set” take a step again, asking listeners to query what’s actual and what’s not. “Blind eyes can’t you see the reality?/It surrounds you/It gives proof/It twists the mind,” Cortese sings.

“Vermont” options Cortese singing about previous errors and future hopes. There appears to be an inflow of songs about Vermont today, apparently it’s the good and most emotionally weak place to be.

Rising up is inevitable and rising up is actual, Corridor Johnson are in a position to embody that pleasure (alongside a little bit terror and resentment) right into a 31-minute, 11-song expertise. (www.therecordmachine.co/hall-johnson)

Writer score: 7.5/10