certain songs from this album float in and out of my life beautifully, but overall it’s a delight from top to bottom. Just what a light, clever, and meditative presence in such lovely music! truly dont make ‘em like this anymore
feels like such a timeless album. i’ve returned to it so many times purely because of how unapologetic it is in terms of its angst and unconventional, “homemade” sound. escape in an album. amazing musical storytelling both in its creation of an aural landscape and in straightforward exposition.
“Harry’s House” absolutely dominated my spring, summer, and fall of 2022. So you might imagine my excitement when Spencer Zahn, Dave Harrington, Jeremy Gustin released their instrumental take on the album. Inflected with ambient undertones and pretty synth melodies, this album captures the essence of what it’s like living inside of Harry’s House, if it were a soft place to inhabit and simply vibe. What it lacks in the bubble gummy, saccharine pop of the original, it makes up in the quiet, warm hug it wraps around your ears.
This album is like when you’re in the park on a summer day, a bit stoned, and everything seems to be pretty hazy. No one’s really following a conversation per se, and no one knows how long you’ve been sitting there for. One of four highly anticipated solo records from the Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young boys, released in I think ‘71. I dont know enough about CSNY to compare and contrast (except that I know Neil Young was never interested much in this kind of la-la-la’ing on his solo efforts). I like this record because it’s like insight into the mind of the last living Hippie, the true Hippie- snapshots and reel to reels from the end of the Love Decade. It sorta feels like Crosby’s standing there in the rain wondering what happened to everyone, when was it hip to get paranoid? Maybe we were lost in a flower dream the whole time! This is seriously easy listening- and I disagree with Lester Bangs who called it “the perfect aural aid to digestion”- this is music to wander around to, to contemplate some things to, or just to zone out to.
