The Lumineers

Imagine a few of the most amazing nights out on the town with friends and/or family. It can be at a party, a bar, a bbq, whatever, the location really doesn’t matter. What matters is the feeling you get when you think of those perfect nights, the nights where the sky looks dazzling, the air is crisp and sharp, the drinks are flowing, the conversations are perfect, the opposite sex is intriguing, the music is pitch perfect – everything is right. Now imagine if you could bottle that feeling and pull it out anytime you needed a pick me up, well that's what The Lumineers have managed to pull off with their self titled debut album.

The Lumineers is about as perfect an album as you can find. It radiates life and all that is wondrous about being alive. It is truly a life affirming experience. I seriously get goose bumps and giggle every time I listen to this fucker. I turn into a 17 year old kid being blow away by new band, insides all tingly and merry. It's like I can inhale this album and feel it travel into my blood oxygenating my cells.

Wesley Schultz voice sounds as though it crawled out of the soil and posted up outside of some Irish pub bumming drinks and learning how to play the fiddle while learning to sing by hearing the drunks inside sing Van Morrison songs and old Irish folk songs. I bet he smells like leather, whiskey and suspenders and is adorable as shit.

There are so many good songs on this record, I would be shocked if it didn’t become the soundtrack for everything and everyone. I don’t know if I have heard a better three song sequence Dead Sea, Hey Ho, and Slow It Down. I fucking melt every time those three come on. I seriously need to take a knee, catch my breath and put my pants back on before I can go on to the rest of the album.

When these sons of bitches come to NYC I owe them a beer because when I listen to them I experience the purest joy possible. I fucking love this record.

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