Night Beds have unveiled a track set to feature on the forthcoming second album, and it’s a world away from the soothing folk which made Winston Yellen‘s debut one of Live4ever’s essentials of 2013. ‘Me, Liquor & God’ is streaming via Soundcloud below.
The electronic groundwork of the track is in stark contrast to the minimalist, acoustic nature of ‘Country Sleep‘, of which our review commented:
“The result then, finds Yellen with supreme confidence in his greatest asset, so much so that ‘Country Sleep’ opens with ‘Faithful Heights’, a startling a capella shiver of a song.”
“There’s no trusty troubadour guitar in sight, it’s just the naked voice coated in long-tailed reverb washes, and as he delivers the opening couplet, ‘When sorrow calls, and you don’t know why’, it instantly becomes obvious that Yellen has read the Americana manual from start to finish and from back to front: the album ahead documents Yellen’s alcohol-laced longing for life’s lost loves.”