American Young - American Young - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

American Young is made up of Country singer/songwriters Kristy Osmunson and Jon Stone, both of whom found success in Nashville before joining forces in 2013. Prior to launching American Young, Osmunson, a fiddle player and former member of vocal group Bomshel, had songs recorded by Joey + Rory, among others; while Stone was an in-demand producer who had cuts recorded by Rascal Flatts, Kenny Chesney, Blake Shelton, tag-mate Lee Brice and others. Following the of their self-titled debut for Curb Records, featuring the singles InchLove Is WarInch and InchWasn't Gonna Drink Tonight, Inch American Young was nominated three years in a row for a British Country Music Association Touring Award, which they won in 2019 solidifying their place as global ambassadors of Country music. The duo can be seen on the first three seasons of the hit E! Reality series InchVery Cavallari. Inch Their latest album, AYII, will be released on November 19, 2021. Tracklisting 1. Happy Again 2. Some Girl 3. Whiskey Don't Work 4. Let You Down 5. Gonna Be You 6. Soundtrack Of Your Life 7. Falling Star 8. Seminole Wind 9. Say It To Me Sober 10. Die Another Day 11. Country Girls.

2016 from the country duo comprised of Jon Stone and Kristy Osmunson. With American Young's first full-length album, AY, dig deeper into it's mission. Each inspired the other to try something crazy Rather than be guided by trends, they vowed to write and record only music that touched them personally. That way, Kristy explains, Inchour songs are like invitations to intimacy.Inch These include InchLove Is WarInch and InchGod Sends a Train,Inch two songs fraught with deep emotional meaning and rendered passionately in their new incarnations. The material being premiered on AY is just as revealing. From InchSomething To You,Inch which Kristy had to fight back tears to record, to the playfully bantering InchPoint Of ViewInch and the timeless yet timely tragedies evoked by InchSoldier's Wife,Inch the album presents Jon and Kristy with neither apology nor artifice. What they offer in song comes from who they are, not what others would want them to be - plus a winning guest appearance by old pal Lee Brice on the sweetly nostalgic InchEighteen.Inch Maybe this is a risky strategy. Then again, maybe the time has come at last for honesty to reclaim it's place in popular music.

With their fourth studio album InchHulders RitualInch ('Ritual of the Huldra'), Slagmaur break the chains of repetition and nostalgia by rewriting the rules of black metal. This does not mean abandoning the foundations of the genre, which is already indicated by working with the 'inventor' of the 'Norwegian black metal sound', THORNS mastermind Snorre W. Ruch, as an additional producer. The band's founder, General Gribbsphiiser, rather unafraid and with reckless abandon mutates and warps the traditional formula through a host of subtle innovations and tweaks of the classic sound. Although InchHulders RitualInch continues, refines, and widens the daring stylistic balance of Slagmaur's previous works, it adds an extra dimension of sardonic mania to it's collection of sharp and vicious sonic instruments. Choice guest-contributions that include TAAKE vocalist Hoest, DIMMU BORGIR guitarist Silenoz, and MISTHYRMING frontman D.G., who cover three decades of Nordic black metal make a case in point. Slagmaur hail from Brekstad on the Fosen peninsula in the Trondelag region and are a part of the Trondheim-based 'Nidrosian black metal movement'. Although Gribbsphiiser started the band as a solo project, he already recruited fellow musicians during the recording of his first demo, InchSvinInch (2006). Slagmaur's black avant-garde debut album, InchSkrekk Lich KunstlerInch (2007), marked the premier instalment in the still-unfolding series, InchThe Art of OldermanInch. The following studio albums InchVon Rov ShelterInch (2009) and InchThill Smitts TerrorInch (2017) continued this story arc. InchHulders RitualInch is for those, who are seeking musical darkness, magic, and the relentless breaking of limitations from black metal. Slagmaur push forward among the select few that are leading the way to the future of the genre.