Wednesday, October 6, 2021

Cody and the Blackouts drop new album 'Living Asleep' 20 Oct. 2021

 


Extrapolation, n: An educated guess or hypothesis. To extrapolate is to use observations



about a current situation to make a prediction.


Extrapolationis not a word youd expect to find in a modern pop song, but there it is in the title track of the thoughtful and heartfelt debut album by Los Angeles band Cody And The Blackouts:

Present finally caught up to my past / Surprised my house of cards had been built to last / Extrapolation gift and a curse / It helps connect the dots but can make things worse” (Living Asleep).

Hes the lead singer and keys player in the band, but Cody Hudocks most striking asset is his songwriting. Notable LA music blog, Buzzbands.la, held up Hudocks work to any number of rock-Americana greats and piano-wielding popsmiths who can seize the moment with a single couplet owing to Hudocks often-cutting, always-earnest lyrics, the Blackouts come off as the band most likely to have put down their history textbooks long enough raise hell at the local bar.

A dab hand with a lyric, Hudock often takes a song title and runs with it, as in Im gonna crack the code / its just a matter of time” (Matter of Time), or All Im asking fors the last word” (The Last Word). Even the albums closing track, tender piano ballad Love Song To You, pre-empts its own chorus as Hudock vows to learn the vocab to say what I felt”.

There he goes, extrapolating again.

Cody Hudock was born into a family of songwriters. He learned the trade from his father and older brother, Jordan, who also plays keys on Living Asleep. After acquiring early performance experience playing keys in Jordans bands, Cody wrote and released 3 EPs between 2011 and 2015 under the moniker Cody The Band, and the ambitiously titled The Great American Album LP under his own name in 2016. The LP garnered some delirious word of mouth, with LA blog The 704 gushing, If there were an award for greatest living songwriter youve never heard of, then Cody Hudocks sterling solo effort would place him firmly in the running.

Rounding out the Blackouts are guitarist Jimmy Holman, drummer Brent Stranathan and bassist Will Weissman, with Joanna Hudock on backing vocals. Joanna shines on the country-tinged I Confess, a duet with husband Cody, And contributes celestial harmonies to the choruses of several other songs on the album.

Recorded at Hollywood studio Elephant In The Room, produced by Ethan Kaufmann (Avril Lavigne, Wild Party) and Brent Stranathan, and mixed by veteran Capitol Records engineer Chandler Harrod (John Mayer, Neil Young), Living Asleep captures the unique studio chemistry of Cody And The Blackouts like lightning in a bottle.

From the pop-cultural history lessons of opening track Time Stood Still (the bands head-turning 2020 debut single), through the pendulum swing of Matter of Time, to the hook-laden pop bauble Sister Sister, Living Asleep extrapolates an uncommon range and versatility. As for predictions, heed the title of the albums penultimate song: Somehow Ill Make Good. Believe it.


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