catalogue

JOHNSON, WILL

NO ORDINARY CROWN (KEELED SCALES)

JOHNSON, WILL - NO ORDINARY CROWN 160177
format:
1 LP
release:
22.09.2023
label:
KEELED SCALES
item ID:
160177
barcode:
0762983632554
Will Johnson's ninth solo album, No Ordinary Crown, hums with palpable motion. Travelers, runners and conductors fill its lyrics, and gesticulating storms and emotional highs and lows seep through the instinctual quality of its rock 'n roll performances.

It's also cabled by ephemeral momentum. The songs were conceived in stolen moments and brief windows of time between the responsibilities of family and a multi-hyphenate career.

The singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, painter and novelist describes the demo process as "fairly jagged," a gathering and stitching of audio snippets recorded via cell phone and dictaphone over a year and half.

"I finalized the songs on short tours where I could hear my thoughts a bit more clearly," he says.

"Somewhere along the line someone advised me to never be afraid to hurt my characters, that I will always be able to get them out of it," he says.

"I do want there to be these small victories and small portals of hope." With No Ordinary Crown, people may behave badly, and the road may get rough, but the reward is in the journey.
 
  • Tracklisting
  • 1.1. ALONG THE RUNNER (NO ORDINARY CROWN)
  • 1.2. SINKER, SINKING
  • 1.3. IN GRANDA
  • 1.4. TEMPEST TIME AGAIN
  • 1.5. ALTA (WARPED KITE)
  • 1.6. THE CONDUCTOR CALLS
  • 1.7. CONDUCT
  • 1.8. IVERIO
  • 1.9. SWINE
  • 1.10. OF PASSENGERS AND PLIGHT