The Medium - City Life (2024)

The third album from beloved Nashville indie rockers The Medium, City Life is the first they’ve produced on their own. Recorded in their homes with the help of a few friends (Johnny Hopson and George Rezek), this grassroots approach to recording captures them simultaneously at their most relaxed as well as their most airtight. Ironically, City Life presents the quartet sounding their most country yet – sonically embracing some of the musical territory of their hometown (“Ghost in the Garden”) as well as lyrically wrestling with the challenges of its rapid changes (“Sellout City”). Songwriter/singer/guitarist Shane Perry’s whip smart writing always leaves room for the cosmic joke to wink right back, though – his delivery by turns sensitive and deadpan. The band’s penchant for saccharine harmonies, hypnotic riffs, and earnest ballads cohere everything into a uniquely relevant take on a classic 70’s rock sound. Inspired by the yearning refrain at the end of Harry Nillsson’s “I Guess the Lord Must Be in New York City,” the record envisions ‘city life’ as a call for a better world – a society driven by care over productivity; by community over profiteering.

Tracklist:
01. The Medium - City Life (03:13)
02. The Medium - Frown Town (02:13)
03. The Medium - Sellout City (02:12)
04. The Medium - Ghost In The Garden (02:38)
05. The Medium - James Harvey (02:46)
06. The Medium - Golden Angels (03:22)
07. The Medium - The Day Dale Died (03:47)
08. The Medium - Horse In Heart (02:46)
09. The Medium - Name Of The Game (02:22)
10. The Medium - Go To Sleepy Bye Bye (01:57)