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BAND/ARTIST: Jonathon Penn
- Title: It Took A Long Time To Get Young
- Year Of Release: 2026
- Label: Shifting Sands Records
- Genre: Americana, Country, Folk, Indie Folk
- Quality: mp3 320 kbps / flac lossless (tracks) / flac 24bits - 48.0kHz
- Total Time: 00:43:59
- Total Size: 102 / 243 / 498 mb
- WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist
01. Ghost Dog
02. Hawk Circling
03. Thick and Thin
04. Barbecue Smoke
05. Wildfire
06. The Devil I Know
07. Lettin' Loose
08. Compensation (Or, The Snake Song)
09. It Took A Long Time To Get Young
10. Gold Rush
11. Two Sides of the Sun
This album of Jonathon Penn’s is, as signified from its title, an artistic and life-influenced bildungsroman, and presumably a cathartic way of dealing with change and discovery. Having walked away from a career in finance and affected by the loss of his father and the birth of his kids, music was the path that he chose to try and make sense of … being.
The opening Ghost Dog is a tale of a spirit guide; lightly double-tracked vocals and glockenspiel give the album somewhat of an Eels-like lift-off. Penn leans more into the indie-folk side of the spectrum than Everett, however, which is consolidated on the following lead-in single and second track, Hawk Circling. Banjo and semi-sung and spoken vocals sum up the fact that “one man’s crazy is another man’s wild and free”
Thick and Thin is a sing-along celebration of family with a tidy soulful guitar motif that adds to the hooky melody. Barbecue Smoke begins solemnly with bass and piano before hushed vocals appear over a heartbeat rhythm. Penn’s vocal strays towards a fragile falsetto on the delicate Wildfire, before occupying a place of greater sonic strength on The Devil I Know.
Lettin’ Loose takes a jazzier, piano-rooted route, it being a late-night rumination on forms of escape and restriction, seen through a familial lens. There’s enigma and perception – and perspective on Compensation (Or, The Snake Song), which benefits musically from some desolate pedal steel. The title track, It Took A Long Time To Get Young, based on a quotation from Picasso about finding your inner innocent child with the advance of age, comes up two-thirds of the way through and is a sparse discussion of that idea. Again, pedal steel adds glowing texture and acts as a smooth foil to Penn’s breaking vocals.
Gold Rush, the penultimate track, switches in style between gentle folkie musings and psychedelic noise and harmonic exploration, all based around a core, steady, but non-click-tracked rhythm. It’s more of a personal fever dream than a Spector-esque widescreen take, but interesting in its dynamic musical variety.
Final track Two Sides of the Sun lyrically pulls the experiences and changes of life together: “If time’s just a record of change, is it a record of healing or a record of pain?” It’s certainly one to peruse on and a valid open conclusion to draw from Penn’s life experiences, brought to the attention of the universal.
01. Ghost Dog
02. Hawk Circling
03. Thick and Thin
04. Barbecue Smoke
05. Wildfire
06. The Devil I Know
07. Lettin' Loose
08. Compensation (Or, The Snake Song)
09. It Took A Long Time To Get Young
10. Gold Rush
11. Two Sides of the Sun
This album of Jonathon Penn’s is, as signified from its title, an artistic and life-influenced bildungsroman, and presumably a cathartic way of dealing with change and discovery. Having walked away from a career in finance and affected by the loss of his father and the birth of his kids, music was the path that he chose to try and make sense of … being.
The opening Ghost Dog is a tale of a spirit guide; lightly double-tracked vocals and glockenspiel give the album somewhat of an Eels-like lift-off. Penn leans more into the indie-folk side of the spectrum than Everett, however, which is consolidated on the following lead-in single and second track, Hawk Circling. Banjo and semi-sung and spoken vocals sum up the fact that “one man’s crazy is another man’s wild and free”
Thick and Thin is a sing-along celebration of family with a tidy soulful guitar motif that adds to the hooky melody. Barbecue Smoke begins solemnly with bass and piano before hushed vocals appear over a heartbeat rhythm. Penn’s vocal strays towards a fragile falsetto on the delicate Wildfire, before occupying a place of greater sonic strength on The Devil I Know.
Lettin’ Loose takes a jazzier, piano-rooted route, it being a late-night rumination on forms of escape and restriction, seen through a familial lens. There’s enigma and perception – and perspective on Compensation (Or, The Snake Song), which benefits musically from some desolate pedal steel. The title track, It Took A Long Time To Get Young, based on a quotation from Picasso about finding your inner innocent child with the advance of age, comes up two-thirds of the way through and is a sparse discussion of that idea. Again, pedal steel adds glowing texture and acts as a smooth foil to Penn’s breaking vocals.
Gold Rush, the penultimate track, switches in style between gentle folkie musings and psychedelic noise and harmonic exploration, all based around a core, steady, but non-click-tracked rhythm. It’s more of a personal fever dream than a Spector-esque widescreen take, but interesting in its dynamic musical variety.
Final track Two Sides of the Sun lyrically pulls the experiences and changes of life together: “If time’s just a record of change, is it a record of healing or a record of pain?” It’s certainly one to peruse on and a valid open conclusion to draw from Penn’s life experiences, brought to the attention of the universal.
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