BAND
Peter & the Wolf
Hindsight is blind, and Peter and the Wolf’s Red Hunter knows this: On his band’s (proper) debut album Lightness, he recalls past relationships to praise them, not to bury them. Hunter idealizes, even canonizes, girls gone by, rendering them all good, and all the same. This is also true of his music: Hunter uses few instruments, though always in gorgeous combinations. The result is a great winter album— one that sounds recorded over a snow day, as if Hunter and company holed up in a warm cabin and made a bricolage record, with half-remembered memories of people they may have never met as a lyrical influence. It’s a small album that fills a room.
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