Windfall

If the opening notes on Joe Pug's third album 'Windfall' are a bit disorienting, his fans won't be surprised. The Austin, Texas singer songwriter has made a habit of defying expectations so the piano-driven 'Bright Beginnings' and the atmospheric rumination of 'Great Hosannas' are just further indication that he's quite comfortable stepping outside of the guy-with-a-guitar trappings of the genre. When Pug set up camp in Lexington Kentucky in 2014 to record, he did so with some of the best songs he has ever written. The agenda was much simpler than previous albums. "The aim on this one was very straightforward. We wanted to capture the music just the way we play it, with minimal production. It was a very back to basics approach because ultimately that's what I love about music, and that's what I love about making music. I wanted to record these songs the way they were written and put them out in the world." The result is a collection of songs that are as close as we've gotten to a