Blog: AudioCred

Not everyone has something unprecedented in them. Even artists of extraordinary longevity (your Bowies, your Springsteens) often spend their careers exploring the nuances and tendencies of their early work. Reinvention, successful reinvention, is rare, and usually speaks to a region of the artist’s sensibility withheld in previous work. Nothing in Daughn Gibson’s recent work with the southern rock band Pearls and Brass provides any clue to his debut solo album All Hell , a paean to parts of America more nowhere than nowhere, where the radio dial is lucky to alight on a scrap of evangelism or lap steel. [...]