For those unaware, The Dreamin’ Kind finds the Nashville transplant Langhorne Slim strapping on an electric guitar and embracing his longtime love of larger-than-life rock & roll. With its chugging power chords, 1970s-sized riffs, and richly layered arrangements, The Dreamin’ Kind is fueled not only by sheer amplification, but by the soul-baring songwriting that’s become Slim’s calling card, too.

Tucked between those anthems are acoustic-driven songs that skirt the outer orbits of folk music, from the bare-boned heartbreak of Stealin’ Time to the organic, orchestral sweep of Dance On Thru. The result is the more explorative and expansive album of Slim’s career: a record made for rock clubs, campfires, and garages alike, produced by Greta Van Fleet’s Sam Kiszka, and anchored by a lifelong desire to break down new walls.

“It felt like I was blowing some old shit up so I could plant some new flowers,” Slim says of the creation process. “I love acoustic music. I love folk music. But those aren’t my only loves. Rock & roll has always tickled the same place in my soul as great singer-songwriter music, and I wanted to explore those influences. Raw songs that make you feel something: that’s the stuff I’m after.”

1. Rock N Roll [03:10]
2. Dream Come True [03:52]
3. Loyalty [02:38]
4. On Fire [02:55]
5. Stealin’ Time [03:23]
6. Rickety Ol’ Bridge [02:40]
7. Strange Companion [03:12]
8. Possessive [02:28]
9. Lord [03:26]
10. Haunted Man [03:57]
11. Dance On Thru [03:39]
12. Engine 99 [03:22]

A pioneer of raw, rule-breaking Americana for more than two decades, Langhorne Slim’s emotively engaging new recording opens on the old school rock fuzz of Rock N Roll and the alt-psych-country Dream Come True and then we get given the full on guitar crunch of Loyalty, the dreamy On Fire and both the aching ballad Stealin’ Time and the pulsating, train track-imbibed Americana of Rickety Ol’ Bridge.

Along next is the full on, Mellencamp-esque rocker Strange Companion and rhythmic pop-rock bounce of Possessive and they are in turn backed seamlessly by the low slung twanging ballad Lord, the full on, Dylan-esque grit of Haunted Man, the set rounding out on the melodious Dance On Thru, coming to a close on the all-embracing alt-Americana-rock force of Engine 99.

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