Album Review: Josh Herring - It's so hard to make Friends (2021)
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Josh Herring - It's so hard to make Friends
Release Date: May 28, 2021
Label: CAMP Editions
Format: Digital
Length: 38:04
Genre: Folk / Dream Pop
Origin: Copenhagen, Denmark
On his latest album, Copenhagen-based artist Josh Herring presents a colourful bouquet of thoughts, sounds, influences, and atmospheres from two worlds - the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the Kingdom of Denmark.
"It's so hard to make Friends" is an eleven-track release that covers a vast range of different expressions. Melancholy is joined by self-irony, honest emotions meet cynicism, and self-pity interchanges with massive self-confidence. And after all, it is 'Hard to make Friends'.
The soundscapes on the album are defined by a versatile synthesis of two musical landscapes that do not seem too different from each other on the first thought. And yet, the atmospheric melancholic and folky tunes that derive from Josh Herring's Danish home create an impressively thrilling air as they grind on the rather British sounds. The latter are mostly Brit Pop, Dream Pop, and a certain bit of Shoegaze.
Further sounds that make this album so colourful and various, are some jazzy and funky improvisations. Josh Herring creates autochthonous and independent soundscapes that are as honest as his lyrics. "It's so hard to make Friends" is the kind of feel-good sonic melancholia that sounds beautiful on a rainy or foggy day.
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