Depending on who you ask, there could be a lot of different reference points for the trilogy of records the Madison, Wisconsin-based artist Graham Hunt has been working on over the past four or five years. Some will point to 90s breakbeat indie acts like Beck and The Beta Band, while others will foreground the singer and songwriter’s Midwest power pop bonafides. (His old band, after all, had a full-length album produced by Tommy Stinson of The Replacements.) Younger heads might hear a little Alex G. Connecting it all are the actual songs themselves, the singer’s way with a hook, the intangible things that make the music stick.
Timeless World Forever, the artist’s forthcoming record and first for Run For Cover, is the third and final entry to this trilogy. One single taken from the album, “East Side Screamer,” sees Hunt almost rapping, in a Beck kind of way, and then yelling his face off on the chorus. It’s a tune tough enough to play for a room full of hardcore kids. It also has enough mirth to delight a Ween superfan. His newest single, “Been There Done That,” falls on the other end of the spectrum. The song is a jazzy piece of Midwestern breakbeat pop that tunefully ambles like a slow walk around a college town at dusk. Timeless World Forever comes out on June 14th.