Aaron Lee Tasjan Hates Technological Alienation, Loves Versatile Pop-Rock Songcraft on Tasjan! Tasjan! Tasjan!
The East Nashville singer-songwriter delivers a tour-de-force
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In the Blazes and 2016’s
Silver Tears (see that LP’s “12 Bar Blues”), Aaron Lee Tasjan, like many of his East Nashville contemporaries, has in recent years moved away from country-roots music and toward a more expansive pop-rock. 2018’s
Karma For Cheap was a transitional record, swapping in electric guitars for acoustic, and folkie stoner wisdom for a more open-hearted curiosity.
Enter
Tasjan! Tasjan! Tasjan!, the singer-songwriter’s latest album, and his most compelling to date. His sonic reinvention here marked by stammering synths and swirling glam-rock feels both effortless and inevitable. Tasjan delivers songs like “Sunday Women,” with its chorus storming the song in its opening seconds, and “Don’t Overthink It,” wi
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