WHITNEY K - Hard To Be A God LP

Highly recommended - among the best of 2022.

It has truly been a delight introducing unsuspecting customers to the wonders of Whitney K, with the superb Hard To Be A God following the excellent Two Years. It's no exaggeration when we say people stop us on the street and at shows to say such things as "Richie, thanks for introducing me to Whitney K - I can't stop playing it! And the wife LOVES it too!"

Hard To Be A God’s hallucinatory pastoral album cover, a painting by Caro Deschênes depicting a rearing dog soaring above the deceased bodies of Bob Dylan, Lou Reed and Kris Kristofferson, epitomizes in many ways Whitney K’s approach. This is not simply a ‘kill yr idols’ situation, this is an open conversation, where storytelling becomes visionary and frames personal, poetic and often playful dérives through the histories of their imagination, bending and elevating a whole serious inventory of dreams.

"Yukon Gold. Whitney's music has the grit and gallows humour... along with a debauched bent suggestive of early Cass McCombs or Lou Reed." - UNCUT **** (4 stars)

"Strings swell up and around him with a gorgeous "Street Hassle" style melancholy." - AQUARIUM DRUNKARD