Brian Fallon - Local Honey (March 27, 2020) Album • Page 37

I think diversity suits him. I love that he did a record like Local Honey, even if it is still too short. Sleepwalkers is my favourite of his solo records though. I love that he could do a Gaslight record, than an Elsie. His ability to naturally expand the natural Brian sound is one of the things that has impressed me most.

Hope the next record is longer and he can hit on even more elements of that magical spectrum he’s created musically.

 

21 Days is amazing

 

which are we considering his Clapton wannabe stuff?

 

i mean he literally made a clapton cover a recurring staple in his setlist haha

 

oh word? I haven't caught any of his streams

 

no, before this album, between sleepwalkers and local honey

 

ohhhhhh wow

 

Returned to Local Honey after getting the vinyl for the holidays and can't state enough how much I enjoy this album. I think if I had to rank Fallon albums, it would be in the top three for me:

1) 59 Sound
2) Elsie
3) Local Honey
4) American Slang
5) Sink or Swim
6) Sleepwalkers
7) Painkillers
8) Handwritten
9) Get Hurt

 

1. 59 Sound
2. Handwritten
3. Elsie
4. American Slang
5. Sink or Swim
6. Painkillers
7. Get Hurt
8. Sleepwalkers
9. Local Honey

 

I'll never understand the hate for Get Hurt

 

I won't get too far into rankings, but I wouldn't put any of his solo stuff above Gaslight, except for Elsie which would probably beat out Sink or Swim. Shame this album never clicked for me.

 

Local Honey would be at the very bottom of his discography for me.

 

Local Honey also sits at the bottom of my list for me. I think the album is fine. However, it doesn't do much for me in comparison to his other solo albums and Gaslight albums. That speaks more about how good his catalog is.

 

1) 59 Sound
2) American Slang
3) Sleepwalkers
4) Handwritten
5) Sink or Swim
6) Painkillers
7) Get Hurt
8) Elsie
9) Local Honey

Agree that Get Hurt deserves better.

 

59 Sound
American Slang
Handwritten
Elsie
Painkillers
Sleepwalkers
Local Honey
Get Hurt
Sink or Swim

Could swap Painkillers and Sleepwalkers depending on the day, but this is what I'm feeling right now.

 

I am at the point where I'm wondering what Brian will do next. Do we think his next album will be Local Honey Part 2, more like his previous solo albums, or something totally different?

 

59 Sound
Handwritten
American Slang
Sleepwalkers
Get Hurt
Sink or Swim
Painkillers
Elsie
Local Honey

 

Get Hurt is fine. I really enjoyed Local Honey.

The 59 Sound was a cultural shift. (At least in my life!)

 

Without really digging into it, I totally agree with this order.

 

59 Sound
Elsie
American Slang
Sleepwalkers
Handwritten
Sink or Swim
Get Hurt
Painkillers
Local Honey

but I truly love them all.

 

Wow did not expect so many people to be down on Local Honey. I feel like it’s the closest he’s gotten back to Elsie which is really where I would love to see him go.

I don’t hate Get Hurt but it has the smallest number of songs I will randomly listen to out of all the albums. It just feels very scattershot to me

 

Brian is the one guy whose work I can’t rank. Every album is outstanding, and attached to specific emotions that mean the world to me. Even Get Hurt - I will go down swinging that it’s a 9/10 album.

Brian Fallon records are amazing. All of them.

 

1. '59 Sound
2. Sink or Swim
3. Local Honey
4. American Slang
5. Elsie
6. Handwritten
7. Sleepwalkers
8. Painkillers
9. Get Hurt

 

I easily like this more than his previous 2 solo albums.

 

I think for me this one finally felt cohesive, whereas his previous two solo albums felt like compilations of songs he had written/thought of before and decided to make an album out of it. I can listen to this straight through and it really captures a mood, whereas Painkillers screeches to a halt on 'Long Drives' for me, especially after the excellent 'Rosemay' and 'Red Lights'. Sleepwalkers is better but the middle of that album is all over the place.