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Josh T. Pearson announces new album ‘The Straight Hits!’; Listen to first track ‘Straight To The Top’

JOSH T. PEARSON ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM THE STRAIGHT HITS!

Out Friday, April 13 on Mute via [PIAS]
Listen to first track ‘Straight To The Top!’ now

Though he’s been a recording artist for over two decades now, and has been writing songs for thirty years, The Straight Hits! is only Josh T. Pearson’s second solo album, and follows his acclaimed debut, 2011’s Last Of The Country Gentlemen and 2001’s The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads by his group Lift To Experience.

LISTEN TO ‘STRAIGHT TO THE TOP!’

Debut album Last Of The Country Gentleman was highly acclaimed worldwide, with champions including Uncut (#5 Album Of The Year 2011), MOJO (nomination for “Best Album” and “Breakthrough Act”), Rolling Stone, Q and Rough Trade (Album Of The Year 2011).

Lately, the dapper Texan gentleman has been motivated by a desire to share more Josh T. Pearson music with the world, before it’s too late. “In the last years I learned to dance, take drugs, make love… choose life. I got rid of the beard, cut my hair and started wearing colour. I burned down all my idols and realized in the process that I needed to burn down my reputation as fast as I could too. I felt constricted by the old stuff and I didn’t like being in a cage. It wasn’t letting me move on.”

“I was at the US Embassy in London when the shit went down with the presidential election in 2016,” he remembers. “It was unsettling; I’ve never seen the country so divided. A responsibility seemed to shift within me – like, where are the people really stepping up to spread joy?”

It is in this spirit that Mr. Josh T. Pearson presents The Straight Hits!, an album which began as a mere creative exercise – each song had to follow certain parameters, listed below as The Five Pillars – and one that has given Pearson the freedom to write a lighter, more “straight” album.

Josh T. Pearson’s The Five Pillars:

1) All songs must have a verse, a chorus and a bridge.
2) The lyrics must run 16 lines or less.
3) They must have the word ‘straight’ in the title.
4) That title must be four words or less.
5) They must submit to song above all else. (“You do as she tells you, whatever the song tells you,” Pearson explains. “You bend to her, and not her to you.”)

In three days, Pearson had penned nine whole songs (the album also includes a cover of Austin Americana singer/songwriter Jonathan Terrell’s wonderful country tribute song ‘Damn Straight’) – “The album is a departure from years of long form songwriting with tunes meant to hit straight and to the point. They all had to be direct hits although I don’t know if I got the ‘hits’ part right, but I did think it was funny calling it a ‘hits’ record after releasing only one solo album after a lifetime of playing music.”

The Straight Hits! features multiple different flavours of country, rock and all points in between, taking in blasts of goofy shit-kicking country-punk (opener ‘Straight To The Top!’,); cataclysmic rock’n’roll playing its romantic drama at high-stakes (‘Loved Straight To Hell’, which compresses the elemental power of Lift To Experience into five and a half minutes of symphonic turmoil); aching folksy mourn (‘Dire Straights Of Love’), and even a bona fide love song, the deliciously profound ache of ‘A Love Song (Set Me Straight)’, which Pearson admits breaks several of The Five Pillars, but obeys an unwritten Sixth Pillar: Musical rules are made to be broken.

Written fast, the tracks were cut with similar no-nonsense focus, in three days with engineer Matt Pence (who made Mute’s 2017 reissue of The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads sound so vivid) at the controls, Lift To Experience drummer Andy Young once again manning the traps, and Daniel Creamer and Scott Lee Jr. of The Texas Gentlemen on keyboards and bass guitar. The recordings were then flown to the UK to be mixed by Ben Hillier. And while the whole project was meant as a simple “exercise”, the result is some of Pearson’s finest music.

Josh T. Pearson has freed himself from the mythology that has surrounded him since Lift To Experience’s implosion, his subsequent years in the wilderness travelling throughout Europe, Australia and beyond, and the release of his acclaimed debut album.

There’s new Josh T. Pearson music in the world, and it’s joyful, giddy, life-affirming stuff.

Josh T. Pearson
The Straight Hits!

1. Straight to the Top!
2. Straight at Me
3. Give It to Me Straight
4. Straight Laced Come Undone
5. Damn Straight
6. Loved Straight To Hell
7. The Dire Straits of Love
8. Whiskey Straight Love
9. A Love Song (Set Me Straight)
10. Straight Down Again!

The Straight Hits! by Josh T. Pearson is out Friday, April 13
on Mute via [PIAS]
Pre-order now:
 https://InertiaMusic.lnk.to/JTP_TSH

 

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Featured Photo Credit : Eliot Lee Hazel

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