Jake Xerxes Fussell – Good and Green Again (2022)

The perfect album in our LOL age, where there’s nothing really to laugh about any more: sincerely sad and introverted, Jake Xerxes Fussell played himself into exactly the place where the chest hovers over the beer glass. Emo music from the rural US, or even country-folk, for wandering off into the distance with a tight but well flushed throat. On »Good And Green Again«, Jake Xerxes Fussell dares to express real, unclarified emotions and makes them impressively palpable, only with voice and guitar. »We all marchin’ around very well« is probably the most prescient line of 2022 thus far, achieved, of course, solely through the way Fussell delivers it here.