Paradise Hop
2011
Buy Digital Download - Available 11.15.2011
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With the release of their fourth album, Paradise Hop, Pert Near Sandstone has managed to harness the raw energy of their famed live shows and inject it into 12 tracks of original material and a couple of originally arranged traditional songs sprinkled on top. The band’s trials and tribulations, encountered during life on the road as a Modern American Strigband, spill out in vivid detail on tracks like “Long Decline”, “Appalachian Girl” and “Solid Gone”. Wild-eyed, lightning fast tracks like “Reuben’s Train”, “Crossroads” and “Paradise Hop” place the band’s commanding technical prowess front-and-center, while a much more cerebral and introspective facet of the band’s songwriting shines through on tracks like “Save Me” and “Parse”. Paradise Hop is a celebration of life in all of its glorious peaks and torturously painful valleys that leaves listeners with an acute sense of what it’s like to step into the beautifully twisted world of Pert Near Sandstone.
"A frenzied string shredding spree that takes audiences under its spell."
-89.3 The Current
"A masterfully and jubilantly plucked fourth disc, Paradise Hop, which finds band leaders Nate Sipe and Kevin Kniebel coming into their own as songwriters."
-The Star Tribune
"Banjo, acoustic guitar, fiddle, and stand-up bass interlock so busily and brightly on the new album Paradise Hop that there almost isn’t time to bask in the group’s vocal harmonies."
-The Onion/AV Club
"If America had a sound, it would be something like this."
-EarToTheGroundMusic
Songs
- Ruben's Train
- Solid Gone
- Appalachian Girl
- Okanagan Valley
- Crossroads
- The Long Decline
- Save Me
- 20 Cups of Coffee
- Snake Charmer
- The Great Bridge
- Maggie Dear
- All Night Long
- Parse
- Paradise Hop
City of Music: Pert Near Sandstone perform "Snake Charmer" from MPLS.TV on Vimeo.