The third album from beloved Nashville indie rockers The Medium, City Life is the first theyâ??ve produced on their own. Recorded in their homes with the help of a few friends, 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 â?? sonically embracing some of the musical territory of their hometown as well as lyrically wrestling with the challenges of its rapid changes. The bandâ??s penchant for saccharine harmonies, hypnotic riffs, and earnest ballads cohere everything into a uniquely relevant take on a classic 70â??s rock sound. The record envisions â??city lifeâ?? as a call for a better world â?? a society driven by care over productivity; by community over profiteering.
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