Welcome! Today’s theme is vision and reimagining. After spending a childhood in Salt Lake City, Hunter Preuger moved to Austin to sow oats with his project Middle Sattre. The project quickly expanded into a six-piece…and then an eight-piece, and a year after the release of their debut album Tendencies, the experimental folk outfit returned to the studio a full octet deep to revisit the group’s song “Corrupted.”
This isn’t some half-baked reimagining where you just throw in an extra string part and call it a day. This is a full-blown rebirth of the song, and from the first note, you hear the differences. The heartbeat is still there, and it’s a brilliant practice in taking something that was perfectly solid and making it absolutely transcendent. And it’s that right kind of Mother Falcon and Elliott Smith energy that makes for a perfect chilly, cozy Monday.
“Corrupted (Uncorrupted)” is out now.
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