Van Hunt

With his new album What Were You Hoping For?, Van Hunt employs a spare but dizzyingly vibrant meld of day-glo psychedelic soul laced with glammed-up riffs and the
acerbic energy of punk. A joint venture between the Nashville-based Thirty Tigers and Hunt’s own label, the album sees the Grammy-winning musician/songwriter/producer turning up the volume on his genre-smashing songcraft and the results are altogether gripping. From the breakneck Watching You Go Crazy Is Driving Me Insane and A Time Machine Is My New Girlfriend to the metallic k.o. of the album’s first single, Eyes Like Pearls, Van Hunt unleashes a sound that reverberates with caustic wit, passion, and the thrilling excitement of an artist operating at the peak of his powers. He has returned to action invigorated and re-energized, his time in the wilderness spurring on his already ambitious sound and vision.