The Berries - High Flying Man - White - VINYL LP

High Flying Man feels like a cautionary phrase - it's hard to remove the connotations of Icarus, some of the more-unfortunately famous Flying Wallendas or even just a guy in the middle of a heater at the blackjack table. It's the promise of an adrenaline rush fighting against the eventuality of a comedown on the horizon - a feeling perfectly channeled in The Berries' third LP High Flying Man due out this summer on Run For Cover Records. The Berries is the project of vocalist, guitarist and main songwriter Matt Berry, a Washington native who's spent the past few years living in Los Angeles. In the five years since forming the band they've released a number of records, including Start All Over Again (2018) and 2019's Berryland. During the pandemic touring pause the band also released a series of singles, collected in the Tower of Ivory compilation tape - but all the while, the songs of High Flying Man were coming together in moments of sporadic inspiration, waiting for the right time to come to light.High Flying Man is riff-first rock music with piercing melodies and desert twang, all tied in with the emotions of living in the modern world. Lead single InchPrimeInch evokes the feeling of hopelessness watching hollow activism fail to remedy the ills of a failing country, while the more mellow InchEagle EyeInch confronts the pain of addiction with the haunting chorus refrain, Inchdon't I remind you of an old horse well past it's prime / I've been ridden and abandoned, left on the roadside out of sight, out of mind.Inch Tracks on this record feel a kinship with classic American rock bands of the past in the driving power of songs like the anti-capitalist closer InchGive Me Your MoneyInch or the swaggering InchExceptional Fabric.Inch While the songs that make up High Flying Man confront difficult truths, the music feels as alive as a man in a brown suit throwing a sword on