flicted (Vinyl) – Bruce Hornsby

This record being the third in a trilogy of song collections mostly based on film music I wrote for Spike Lee over the past few years, I wanted to move to some new stylistic places and maybe make a more upbeat record overall. We don’t get a ballad until #7, the pandemic shut-down era piece “Days Ahead” (a duet with Danielle Haim). Lyrically the record is dotted with three Covid-related songs; the aforementioned, “Tag” and the album opener “Sidelines” (a duet with Ezra Koenig of Vampire Weekend), and otherwise ranges far afield with the world of science again a recurring influence (“Lidar” and “Point Omega”). The record also includes the first cover song I’ve ever put on a studio release, a total re-imagining of Chuck Berry’s “Too Much Monkey Business.” The album title “‘Flicted” relates to this strange time in which we live, when the world is basically, well, ‘flicted!”

Track List

1. Sidelines (With Ezra Koenig and Featuring Blake Mills)
2. Tag
3. The Hound
4. Too Much Monkey Business
5. Maybe Now
6. Bucket List
7. Days Ahead (Featuring Danielle Haim)
8. Lidar
9. Is This It
10. Had Enough
11. Simple Prayer II (Featuring Z. Berg Ethan Gruska and Rob Moose)
12. Point Omega