In Conversation: Ryan Walsh [Hallelujah The Hills]
On the latest episode of Discologist, Eduardo and Kevin welcome back author/musician/all-around-rad-dude Ryan Walsh (Hallelujah The Hills, Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968) to talk about DECK, his latest album with his long-time band Hallelujah The Hills. Clocking in at a massive 54 songs (1 song for each card in a deck of cards plus the joker), DECK is both a monument to the power of creativity and an essential history of the music that influenced Ryan, and us all, over the past few decades. It’s also one of the best albums of the year.
Tune in now to find out how it came to be, why it is such an important work, and more.
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Deck
Hallelujah The Hills
In March 2020, Hallelujah the Hills set out to tour their most recent release - I'm You, one of the great releases of 2019 - only to run headfirst into a pandemic wall. Their most recent release, DECK, picks up where I'm You left off, both sonically and lyrically. The 54 songs spread across four albums and an EP work like little vignettes and character sketches, equal parts scruffy, shouty, sweet, and sad. DECK is a sprawling and ambitious work, stacked with a roster of A-list guests, that asks the listener to rethink what an album is. Conceptual hullabaloo aside, the songs on DECK continually astound; just as David Berman made rural Virginia into an archetypal place we could all visit, this is an album that allows you to be in love with Massachusetts even if you've never set foot in New England. — Eduardo
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