Red Rider recently sat down with California native and Los Angeles based Christian Lee Hutson before his SF show at the Swedish American Hall. Tune in this Sunday, March 9th at 4pm to hear their conversation.
Hutson’s latest album, Paradise Pop. 10 feels a lot like finding an unpublished collection of short stories, scrawled hastily on the sides of airsickness bags and cocktail napkins, each one detailing the life of the unwitting passenger fortunate enough to be seated next to Christian Lee Hutson on their flight to Fort Worth.
Anyone who has had the good fortune of falling in love with his earlier albums – 2020’s Beginners and 2022’s Quitters – knows that he is a keen observer of both himself and the world. Those albums earned the Californian singer-songwriter international attention, with Pitchfork noting that, “Few lyricists can paint such clear portraits in such a small space; even fewer can set them so naturally to such long-breathed melodies”, the UK’s Guardian commending his work as “small films in song, delicate and devastating, lingering long” and No Depression heralding the arrival of “an artist fully formed and wise beyond his years”.
Photo: Michael Delaney
