T. Hardy Morris has some recommendation for younger artists, younger lovers and former selves: “Don’t waste your time worrying about what others suppose—and positively don’t kill your time by giving up.”
That’s the gist of the Athens, Ga., singer/songwriter’s bracing new single, which could be discovered on Synthetic Tears, obtainable August 8 by way of New West’s Normaltown imprint. Whereas the unchecked dreaminess of 2021’s Digital Age Of Rome was fed principally by melancholy and despair, Morris’ newest music revels in a ramshackle form of giddy defiance, even when it’s looking for consolation within the occasional nostalgia journey.
Synthetic Tears was produced and blended by My Morning Jacket’s Carl Broemel, who additionally performed many of the devices. The method started and ended at Broemel’s Nashville house, with an aborted journey to the studio in between. By and enormous, the album retains the grit of the unique four-track recordings.
Incomes early accolades within the 2000s with hard-touring, grunge-tinged Southern rockers Useless Accomplice, Morris can be a founding member of the indie-rock supergroup Diamond Rugs with Deer Tick’s John McCauley and Robbie Crowell, Black Lips’ Ian Saint Pe, Los Lobos’ Steve Berlin and Six Finger Satellite tv for pc’s Bryan Dufresne. He’s logged quite a lot of onerous miles alongside the best way—and he acknowledges as a lot.
“Rock ‘n’ roll is a younger folks’s recreation, and that’s what I really like about it,” says Morris. “I really like discovering younger artists and listening to what they’re creating as they’re discovering themselves. That’s the most effective music to me.”
We’re proud to premiere T. Hardy Morris’ “Don’t Kill Your Time (To Shine).”
—Hobart Rowland
