Name: Nice Time on Earth Today
Brand: Buster Sledge

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HCD7406

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Format Music GB

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Release date

2023-09-01

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7033662074068

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Buster Sledge

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Folk

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Heilo

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<i>Nice Time on Earth Today</i>, the third full-length release from the Oslo- based Norwegian American Sadgrass wonder-group Buster Sledge, runs the gamut of both American folk and popular music styles.

 Though in this way the musical backdrop is continuously shifting, the text is always up- front and delivered via a hummable melody. Moments of reckless abandon and maximalism explode through unexpected chord changes, grandiose arrangements and wild solos while the backdrop remains tightly knitted and controlled-but not too much of anything of course! Balancing aesthetics is core to the artistic agenda of this band. The title of the album captures with a tongue in the cheek the modus operandi of their lyrical style, a sort of bluegrass/ folk- inspired dark humor and levity (e.g. sad lyrics in a happy-sounding song) where the narrator seems to be suffering but also to view themselves suffering with an ironic distance, let's call it stoic melancholicana, and ideally with leave you with a couple verbal and sonic things to reflect on. 

Buster Sledge is an acoustic chamber-quartet of four voices, fiddle, banjo, guitar and contrabass fronted by a Californian living in Norway and backed by three Norwegians of diverse musical backgrounds, all with a shared love for traditional American music. The band creates a contemporary twist on music steeped in tradition through an original repertoire of music that brings the structure and pop- esque melodic focus of American old- time fiddle music as well as the lyrical meter and storytelling focus of old mountain-ballads and country songs together with modern harmonic and lyrical elements from rap, pop and jazz. These are some of the ways the group engages with the age- old tradition of recycling paraphrased archetypes into a new generation of expressions.

Nice Time on Earth Today

Music GB

Discover Nice Time on Earth Today by Buster Sledge. A unique blend of American folk and popular music styles. Available in various formats from Heilo.