Release Date: 25 August 2023
Label: Don Giovanni
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 634457127227
Genres: Country Country-Rock
Description
Kym Register + Meltdown Rodeo (formerly LOAMLANDS) is a transgressive and distorted country music outfit based in North Carolina that places queer storytelling at the forefront.
Their music intimately grapples with identity, retribution, reconciliation and queer existence in both modern-day and historical (inclusive of mostly all) southern culture.
Register is also contributing a queer lens to the southern rock ethos. By way of supporting cast, Sinclair Palmer (bass), Joe Westerlund (drums), and Matt Phillips categorically deliver. Check out the title track for a perfect example of the band's ability to travel between gritty
responsiveness and tendern reflection at Register's lyrical instruction. Whether grappling with the constrictions of gender expressions on dating apps ("How Do You See Me"), evoking the semi-autobiographical loneliness of Dorothy Allison's Carolina bastards ("Maureen"), or daring white folks to "get right with their history of compliance in racial capitalism" ("Loamlands"), Register affirms that songwriting, at its best, is a gross but necessary confrontation.
Ultimately Register and Meltdown Rodeo (both the newly named band and album) have achieved in eleven songs something the south has only half-heartedly attempted - undoing generational curses by retiring "bless your heart" lip service.
Tracklisting
Wildernauts
Jody Stecher with Mile Twelve
London Experimental Ensemble with Richard Thompson, Wesley Stace, Sivert Hoyem, Marissa Nadler and Gina Fergione
Nicole Mitchell And Moor Mother
Lavender Country
Moor Mother
Waxahatchee
Laura Stevenson
Eagles
Conway Twitty
New Riders Of The Purple Sage
Various
Shane Smith & the Saints
Brown Horse
Corb Lund
Various Artists
