Texas-based Josh T. Pearson, once the frontman for short-lived yet well-received psychedelic Denton band Lift To Experience and also a contributor on guitar and backup vocals to the Bat For Lashes album Fur & Gold (“Seal Jubilee” and “Trophy”), has released Last Of The Country Gentlemen, his first album of new material in ten years. Recorded in Berlin over the span of a couple days, the sprawling yet intimate country record, which boasts four songs that clock in at over ten minutes, finds Pearson in a deeply introspective place. The religious imagery of his prior output is still prevalent, but Country Gentlemen is a whisper-quiet affair featuring finger-picked acoustic guitar, an off-the-cuff improvisational aesthetic, and Pearson’s disarming lyrics about love, loss, lust, infidelity, and salvation. It’s a deeply personal and deeply affecting affair custom-built for long nights and long drives. — Capt. Obvious

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