01/05/2015- Song River
(Vents Magazine)
Van
Hunt from Dayton via Atlanta has drawn accolades for his twists and
turns of Urban Funkadelic, Soulified, Eclectic style of song-writing
and vocal prowess. A style that brings the past to the present, while
dancing us into our future. The Fun Rises, The Fun Sets made
me sit up and take note immediately. I heard early Prince, and all of
the time clocks exploded at that succinct moment. A musical
religious experience that I had not been captured into since that
time, and never imagined it could have happened again.
Presenting
his fourth studio album, The Fun Rises,The Fun Sets, Van Hunt
has brought all of his passion together in a simple presentation that
flows funk n soul into a smooth electrified delicacy of music. The
album personifies originality and is a prevailing epitome of
perfectionism. From the front door to the back door as you walk
through the Van Hunt alleyway all else disappears and the sounds he
produces encompass you.
Van
Hunt never seems to be afraid, one could almost say he is fearless
when it comes to touching a sound, as he possess it, takes it, owns
it and makes it his own. Forging through the bubblegum pop and post
hard-core punk screamo, he brings his sound and marries it in a
perfect blend of harmony as each song works together and brings every
moment of ease into a collective. Liquid fulfillment glides between
every song recorded. Each and every album he has created since his
first self-titled release in 2004, Van Hunt has set his presence in
motion.
The
Fun Rises, The Fun Sets connects all of the songs into a vital
force of vivacity that stops all time, as the funk resounds in the
opening with Vega, a truism mouthed back to the now.
Relishing the tantalizing seduction of slink as, Teach Me a New
Language, releases herself and you submerge into the fusion.
A strip tease of R&B get stirred in with, (let it) Soak
(n) as it exquisitely saturates the moves wavering and
traveling up the spine. Jazz in cool shades is presented with, She
Stays With Me, as lounging entwined bodies dance to, If
I Wanna Dance With You, and the elements of all time standing
and colliding end with the albums titled song, The Fun Rises,
The Fun Sets.
A
blissful masterpiece of evocative music, a fundamental particle of
nostalgia, an endowment of the present, and a leap of the future has
been presented.
Van Hunt Website
The Fun Rises, The Fun Sets:
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