Sturgill Simpson premieres new album Sound & Fury: Stream
Sturgill Simpson is again with a brand new album, Sound & Fury, together with an anime movie of the identical title. Stream the album under by way of Apple Music and Spotify, and watch the movie on Netflix.
The follow-up to 2016’s Grammy-winning A Sailor’s Information to Earth, Sound & Fury is Simpson’s fourth studio album and first with Elektra Data. Simpson produced the file with bandmates Bobby Emmett, Chuck Bartels, and Miles Miller, in addition to veteran mixer and producer John Hill.
The film, based mostly on a narrative by Simpson and that includes all of the songs from the LP, was written and directed by Junpei Mizusaki (Batman Ninja) with character designs by Afro Samurai creator Takashi Okazaki. Extra directing was accomplished by Masaru Matsumoto, Michael Arias, and Koji Morimoto.
In an interview with Zane Lowe of Apple Music’s Beats 1, Simpson defined how the album and movie got here collectively:
“We had been in Detroit whereas we had been making the file, and I used to be kind of writing it in actual time and listening to plenty of Eminem. And I used to be similar to, ‘Man, this man will get to speak mad shit. How come we will’t try this?’ So I simply sat down and wrote a bunch of mad shit-talking songs about how fucking superior we’re. After which we recorded it. After which I mentioned, ‘Man, this isn’t bizarre sufficient. I ought to most likely go to Japan and, like, get the 5 most legendary animation administrators in historical past collectively and get all of them drunk and put them to competitors to see who can outdo each other, and we’ll simply animate the entire fucking album.’”
Followers acquired a primary style of Sound & Fury final month with the only “Sing Alongside”. He additionally recenetly penned the theme music for the upmarket zombie flick The Lifeless Don’t Die. Simpson is about to embark on a six-date US tour benefiting Gold Star army households, with an extended European tour scheduled for early subsequent yr. Test for tickets to all his upcoming reveals right here.
Sound & Fury Paintings:
