When Brian Larney of The Town Hall was recording his 5-song EP, his plan was to call it The Charm Offensive. That changed the day he stumbled across an old political button that read “America Needs J.F.K.”
Though America Needs The Town Hall isn’t a political album, that it was written in this time of political divide and social upheaval by a writer as introspective and sensitive as Larney, it’s little wonder that the state of the media and politics would be so reflected by his songs. Backlash was the writer’s reaction to the awful and unfortunate outcome of the Dallas protests last summer: “Everyone has lost it, the crowd loses sight. There’s five dead in Dallas tonight.”
But not everything is moody when it comes to Larney’s songwriting, which leans as much Burt Bacharach-Partridge Family as the modern, alternative groups he is often compared to such as Father John Misty, City and Colour and the Decemberists.
In his latest music video for “No End in Sight” Larney shows his wit and dry humor with a spoof of Uber, playing a driver having the longest day of his life. The video was directed by Larney himself, check it out and let us know what you think.
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