{"id":2809,"date":"2025-06-16T14:40:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T14:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/brittany-davis-black-thunder\/"},"modified":"2025-06-16T14:40:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T14:40:00","slug":"brittany-davis-black-thunder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/brittany-davis-black-thunder\/","title":{"rendered":"Brittany Davis Brings The \u2018Thunder\u2019 On New LP"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2024\/04\/Brittany-Davis-GettyImages-1474099308.jpg\" width=\"1290\" height=\"896\" alt=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p>A sightless, millennial African-American who lived an itinerant childhood before finding her community in Seattle, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/tag\/brittany-davis\">Brittany Davis<\/a> has long described herself as a vessel through which any number of musical spirits freely move.<\/p>\n<p>In the rock-leaning Painted Shield with mentor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/tag\/stone-gossard\">Stone Gossard<\/a> of Pearl Jam, she\u2019s a Swiss army knife of a vocal harmonist and a certified keyboard wiz. As both a solo artist and the leader of her own group, she\u2019s subsumed hip-hop, R&amp;B, soul, and, on a 2024 concept album cleverly titled <em>Image Issues<\/em>, everything from Outkast and Cardi B to Jimi Hendrix and Beyonc\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>More from Spin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/06\/devo-the-b-52s-make-touring-team\/\">Devo, The B-52s Make Touring Team<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/06\/noah-cyrus-new-album\/\">Noah Cyrus Welcomes Blake Shelton, Bill Callahan On New LP<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/06\/mary-halvorson-aint-afraid-of-no-ghosts\/\">Mary Halvorson Ain\u2019t Afraid of No Ghosts<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For the sessions that eventually birthed <em>Black Thunder<\/em>, Davis settled into Gossard\u2019s Studio Litho for 48 hours with producer Josh Evans, drummer D\u2019Vonne Lewis, and bassist Evan Flory-Barnes \u2014 and nothing else planned. The result, out now on Gossard\u2019s Loosegroove Records imprint, is \u201cone of the most productive two days I\u2019ve ever seen,\u201d he previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/02\/stone-gossard-pearl-jam-loosegroove\/\">told SPIN<\/a>. \u201cThis record is a fully realized, arranged, amazing story that was basically channeled through Brittany.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And what a record it is, powered by the deep generational impact of slavery and oppression on the collective African-American identity and Davis\u2019 desires to feel loved in her own skin. Interludes featuring the clanking of metal chains and the sound of 250-year-old spirituals amplify the arresting, completely improvised music therein, as Davis rattles off weighty rhetorical questions about the inability to choose your genetic lottery and whether some higher power could one day change all the things about herself with which she struggles daily.<\/p>\n<p>The prevailing free jazz sound only ups the intensity, as Davis and company are in beautiful, mellow, Keith Jarrett territory one minute and confrontational, avant-garde beast mode the next. \u201cMy evolution has not become flat,\u201d she sings triumphantly on \u201cAll You Get.\u201d In a sea of musicians with nothing to say and nowhere to grow, Davis deserves our deepest appreciation.<\/p>\n<p><em>Brittany Davis plays an album release show tomorrow (June 17) at the Rabbit Box in Seattle. <a href=\"https:\/\/tickets.venuepilot.com\/e\/brittany-davis-album-release-black-thunder-2025-06-17-the-rabbit-box-theatre-seattle-1b43cb\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> for details<\/em>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1290\" height=\"1290\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/06\/Brittany-Davis-Black-Thunder-Artwork-1290x1290.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-466548\" style=\"width:806px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/06\/Brittany-Davis-Black-Thunder-Artwork-1290x1290.jpg 1290w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/06\/Brittany-Davis-Black-Thunder-Artwork-340x340.jpg 340w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/06\/Brittany-Davis-Black-Thunder-Artwork-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/06\/Brittany-Davis-Black-Thunder-Artwork-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/06\/Brittany-Davis-Black-Thunder-Artwork-498x498.jpg 498w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/06\/Brittany-Davis-Black-Thunder-Artwork-1668x1668.jpg 1668w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1290px) 100vw, 1290px\"><\/figure>\n<p>To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2021\/07\/the-greatest-rock-stars-of-all-time\/?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=bottomlink&amp;utm_campaign=yahoolink\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sightless, millennial African-American who lived an itinerant childhood before finding her community in Seattle, Brittany Davis has long described herself as a vessel through which any number of musical&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1725,1726,117,260,24,88,1727],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brittany-davis","category-loosegroove-records","category-new-music","category-pearl-jam","category-pushly","category-reviews","category-stone-gossard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}