The frontman of Los Angeles’ aptly named, Sid Hillman Quartet, since 1999, Sid Hillman first talked about his debut solo album, ‘Oxygen’, in a weblog submit again in August 2022. Now, almost 3 years later, that document has lastly been launched, with the stripped again and chilled observe, ‘Even Issues’. Each album and single dropped on the 2nd of Could.
With 4 full size albums and one EP beneath their belt, launched on impartial labels within the US and Europe, the Sid Hillman Quartet have discovered their ft within the charts, and touring throughout Europe, Canada, and the USA. Sid moved out of LA and, in 2018 stepped away from all social media, and located that the music began flowing by means of him from that time. Quickly sufficient, he had written sufficient songs for a complete album, and so he set about demoing them, shaping them into one thing that had a very completely different vibe to what he’d written with the Quartet.
He despatched the songs to the band, and, after not listening to again from them for some time, and the onset of the Covid-19 Pandemic which means that life was up within the air in any case, he randomly obtained a textual content kind Mike Taklender, the drummer from the Quartet, telling him that he’d managed to get round to the songs and laid down some check drum tracks. Following this, he drove right down to Los Angeles and recorded the songs within the studio, laying down guitar, drums, and vocals, with the studio’s proprietor and engineer, Andrew Bush, later recording the bass tracks.
Whereas the precise album took maybe fifteen days to document, with Sid having to drive 8 hours every option to get to LA, it nonetheless took almost 3 years of co-ordination and monetary timing to get it out. However now, ‘Oxygen’ has lastly been launched on Could 2, this 12 months, on each vinyl and digital, through Uncommon Hen Recordings (Sony Distribution).
‘Even Issues’, the primary single from ‘Oxygen’, is as uncooked and pure as to be anticipated from such a recording journey. Hillman’s vocals superbly carry the sparse lyrics, whereas he tells a story that may be interpreted in quite a lot of other ways. One sees him telling the story of a pair who realise they’re one another’s greatest wager. They cease making an attempt to one-up one another, as a result of the squabbles find yourself going nowhere. One other studying of the lyrics looks as if a stand off between two individuals on the bar, seeing who can outpace the opposite. Nonetheless another look over the lyrics, and it looks as if a pair who’ve met by likelihood, and resolve to throw of their lot with one another. Whether or not or not any of those are near the reality of the story behind the track makes no distinction; it’s testimony to an important track that it might resonate with a large ranging viewers.
‘Oxygen’, with ‘Even Issues’, is out now, and is obtainable right here. You could find out extra about Sid Hillman and his music on his official web site.
