Though he’s still plugging away at his full-time gig as a member of both Dead Confederate and supergroup Diamond Rugs, Morris has taken a swing at a solo album as well. Audition Tapes <\/i>is his first trip alone. Much like his peers, he takes a quieter approach on his own, and while there’s enough pedal steel across these tracks to easily fall into alt-country, the hazy, grungy sounds he’s made his career on are still present, just taken down a few notches into a more cozy atmosphere. <\/p>\n
\u201cLucky\u201d starts things off with a Ryan Adams similarity, though in a much more hazy vein \u2013 a theme that continues on throughout. Tracks like \u201cHardstuff\u201d and \u201cOk Corral,\u201d a duet with Thayer Sarrano, are much along the same lines, slower paced and dreamy, and Sarrano later reappears on the very quiet \u201cBeauty Rest.\u201d It’s not all a hushed affair, though. \u201cShare The Needle\u201d is closest Dead Confederate comparison with rollicking guitars and a more straightforward rock vibe, though the album retreats back to calm and closes with \u201cMy Own Worst Enemy,\u201d a stripped back folk song that is both warm and despondent in a way that brings to mind the great Elliott Smith.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
This isn’t exactly the expected path Morris would take. When you consider that members of The Delta Spirit and Black Lips played on Audition Tapes <\/i>and that it was recorded in Nashville onto tape and after hours, things make a bit more sense, though it’s still a much different vision from his day job. It\u2019s almost as if he traded his acid and 3D glasses for a jaunt at back porch life, watching tumbleweeds by day and fireflies by night. Morris has brought us one of the most peculiar Americana\/alt-country albums this year, but one that’s hard to forget after just one listen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":31636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[9237],"rating":[5613],"class_list":["post-43343","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-t-hardy-morris","rating-rating-a-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/43343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/43343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=43343"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=43343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}