Canvas trunk maker, Sam Championer and visual graphic manipulator Sean Bones Sullivan’s latest output is the Easy Street 45rpm single. Bones’ description of the project as a “weird and winning study of early reggae styles and recording techniques,” is illuminated from the first upstroked guitar notes of the title track. Sean’s attention to detail and authenticity is apparent in every twang of the analog organs that usher in Caribbean humidity by way of Brooklyn but Easy Street avoids kitsch by not being a nostalgia trip. The breezy song structures have modern touches that show Bones is a songwriter putting his spin on a classic style rather than tracing Kingston’s lines with a new pen for the consumption of Jack Johnson loving half-assed dread having college bros. Easy Street’s success and allure is that it’s an ode to a style, an enthusiast’s homage not a backdrop for hacky sacks, bad acid and those annoying fucking sticks with the streamers and shit coming off them. With song and study at the forefront and Easy Street is the perfect medication for keeping an even keel while grilling on Brooklyn roofs or missions to over crowded public beaches on public transportation.
From S/S Friends:
The Easy Street 7″ / EP is OUT NOW.
The record is done. It’s called Easy Street and it’s a apt soundtrack
for the rest of your long summer. Every order comes with digital
downloads and bonus material (so don’t sweat the format.) Making this
record was a special event and you can hear that in the music.
Records can be bought through the S/S FRIENDS website
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TAGS: Canvas Trunks, Reggae, S/S Friends, Sam Champion, Sean Bones, Summer Fashion
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August 7th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
i like the verbal assault pride on the desk in the press section