Blog: Subservient Experiment

Have you ever wondered what an Elliot Smith record would sound like if coated with watermelon Jolly Ranchers candy? Yeah. Me either. But I know now without a doubt that Harper Simon's new self-titled record, Harper Simon, epitomizes the above question. Firstly, I wasn't sure what I was really in for from the first track "All to God." "Awesome," I thought. "Another emo-Christian boy who's gonna cry in the key of C for 38 minutes about the girl who wouldn't hold his hand down by the lake that night." Nope. Honestly, [...]

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