{"id":2441773,"date":"2019-03-15T10:49:40","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T16:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=808600"},"modified":"2019-03-15T10:49:40","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T16:49:40","slug":"song-you-need-to-know-christian-lee-hutson-northsiders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/song-you-need-to-know-christian-lee-hutson-northsiders\/","title":{"rendered":"Song You Need to Know: Christian Lee Hutson, \u2018Northsiders\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Christian Lee Hutson\u2019s \u201cNorthsiders\u201d is about memories that haunt. Hutson, an L.A.-based singer-songwriter who\u2019s currently touring with Phoebe Bridgers<\/a> and Conor Oberst\u2019s Better Oblivion Community Center<\/a>, spends most of the Bridgers-produced song recounting a naive adolescence with nostalgic remove and striking specificity: \u201cWe were so pretentious then, didn\u2019t trust the government,\u201d he sings over an acoustic guitar in gentle, double-tracked vocals that recall mid-period Elliott Smith<\/a>. \u201cSaid that we were communists, and thought that we invented it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Hutson fills \u201cNorthsiders\u201d with similarly everyday scenes from the past: \u201cMorrissey apologists\/Amateur psychologists\/Serial monogamists.\u201d But after the song\u2019s narrator alludes to tragedy in the penultimate verse, the song snaps into the present tense. After three minutes of aching imagery and vivid detail, Hutson has no grand conclusions to draw, no lessons to learn, about his remembrance of teenage art-school things past. \u201cIt\u2019s crazy,\u201d he sings with a tearful shrug, \u201chow things shake out sometimes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n