Son Volt find a glimmer of hope on their 10th album, 'Electro Melodier.' Read erdanton's review:
Jay Farrar has long had a reputation as a morose guy with a fondness for inscrutable, impressionistic lyrics. That’s only half right. In reality, the Son Volt singer is simply self-contained. He doesn’t have a public persona, or much of a social media presence. Farrar is focused instead on writing songs that say what he wants them to say, and then letting them stand on their own.
Even amid the lingering chaos and cruelty of the Trump years, a global pandemic, and protests and unrest in response to the ever more visible framework of structural racism in America, Farrar sees cause for a measure of optimism on, Son Volt’s 10th album. He’s a believer in grassroots, bottom-up solutions that involve people working together, a notion that recurs in Son Volt’s latter-day work.
Elsewhere, there’s a sense of change in the air as people in the street push back against authority on “The Globe,” a sturdy roots-rocker with a Moog synth part in the middle that recalls The Who’s “Won’t Get Fooled Again.” “Someday Is Now” finds “players of the long con” getting toppled for their perfidy, and Farrar intones the lyrics with a stern gravitas, accompanied by hard-strummed acoustic guitar and foreboding electric licks.
Musically, Farrar stays close to the country-rock sound he began honing with Uncle Tupelo in the late ’80s and early ’90s, with harmony vocals from bassist Andrew Duplantis often sweetening the melodies on. There are a few variations on theme: “Arkey Blues,” one of his finer latter-day efforts, alternates between a rollicking guitar riff and mournful piano, while there’s a dusky country-blues feel to “War on Misery.
It’s been said that Farrar has been making a version of the same album over and over since Son Volt’s 1995 debut,, but that’s a simplistic perspective. What’s true is that his sound is unmistakable, no matter what direction he steers Son Volt’s music.
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