Music
Hudson Freeman
Crackling indie folk with the death anxieties of someone who has left the church
Hudson Freeman grew up in a concrete metroplex in Texas, the child of two evangelical missionaries, but at the age of thirteen he suddenly moved to the sparsely populated little kingdom of Eswatini. Whether you can hear it in the music? Freeman is, in any case, an oddball. At first listen he makes light-footed, slightly melancholic indie pop, in the spirit of Alex G and Sufjan Stevens, but like Alex G and Sufjan Stevens, Freeman is secretly a powerhouse on his chosen instrument and on second listen he makes quite daring choices. Just as his parents built churches in the Highveld, Freeman is now hammering together one shelter after another – it is warm inside, the ambiance a tad outlandish.
