Hudson Freeman Announces New Album Doom Country: Hear “Fell Ass Backwards”

Hudson Freeman came to my attention at the end of last year, when the Pitchfork critic-turned-music producer Nick Sylvester wrote about him in a Substack post called "This is the song I shared most last year." Sylvester wrote about a "demo" version of Freeman's song "If You Know Me" that went viral on Instagram, which is less a demo than a lo-fi live performance video shot in a Southern Indiana cornfield. "His guitar is hiked up high, and you can see the bottom three strings visibly vibrate when he strums them – perhaps because of some esoteric tuning, but either way it completes the hillbilly vibe," Sylvester wrote. The guitar playing is formidable — virtuosic in a raw, folksy way — and yes, the strings are tuned so low that they sound like they're summoning ancient frequencies. As for Freemans vocals, I'm told some people were referring to this as "country Nirvana"? It's easy to see why this mesmerizing take on the song took off. Sylvester saw it on IG, but the YouTube upload has 134,000 views. Here, add one more:Then, in February, Ryan Dombal profiled Freeman at Hearing Things, calling him "the Indie-Rock Philosopher Who Happened to Go Viral." Guys who were writing for Pitchfork...