Review: "My drive home from my teaching job is all uphill," says Jeffrey Silverstein; "you kind of crest over this ridge to get to where you want to go. Every moment that happens to me, I just have this sense of ease once I get to the top." With that in mind, the easy-going vibes that pervade the artist's new EP, named after his home neighbourhood in Northeast Portland, makes perfect sense. A warm embrace of contemporary Americana, these are the songs that invite you in from the summer downpour for aged bourbon and memory lane trips. Picking up where things left off on 2023's full-length outing, Western Sky Music, Silverstein continues with something of a sonic reinvention. No longer the lone wolf he once sounded like, full-band acoustics ring out across imagined deserts and badlands, wildernesses that offer vistas which go on for miles. And miles.
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