City Life: Eco-Friendly Lavendar Vinyl LP
LPEL612CLabel: Earth Libraries
Release Date: 23rd August
The Medium are the ultimate 70s band for 20s ears, hitting a power pop post-Beatles American rock sound ala The Cars or Cheap Trick but also touch on some lovely syrupy country rock twangs. They just seem to soak up classic 70s aor rock and spin their own tune.
The third album from beloved Nashville indie rockers The Medium, City Life is the first they've produced on their own
Recorded in their homes with the help of a few friends, this grassroots approach to recording captures them simultaneously at their most relaxed as well as their most airtight. Ironically, City Life presents the quartet sounding their most country yet - sonically embracing some of the musical territory of their hometown as well as lyrically wrestling with the challenges of its rapid changes. The band's penchant for saccharine harmonies, hypnotic riffs, and earnest ballads cohere everything into a uniquely relevant take on a classic 70's rock sound. The record envisions 'city life' as a call for a better world - a society driven by care over productivity; by community over profiteering.