Biography

The follow-up to Honey Harper’s 2020 full-length debut 'Starmaker'—a critically lauded album that earned comparisons to both Gram Parsons and Brian Eno—'Honey Harper & The Infinite Sky’ emerged from a deliberate revamping of the band’s creative approach. “Instead of taking two years [as was done with Starmaker], we took two weeks and cut everything to tape,” says frontman William Fussell. “We did every song in three takes and then picked the best one; the idea was to take advantage of the spontaneity that makes Americana unique, and create without any pressure and with almost no rules.” Informed by a vast range of influences (everyone from George Jones to David Bowie to Kanye West), the record mines decades of musical history and places the most time-worn touchstones in unexpected new contexts. A postmodernist pastiche befitting of a band praised by Pitchfork for its “celestial twang that owes as much to Spiritualized as it does to Merle Haggard,” the album represents a seamless merging of Fussell and co-founder Alanna Pagnutti’s distinct artistic paths. Despite the high level of conceptualization that went into its creation, the record embodies an irresistibly loose and groove-heavy sound that hits with an immediate impact. While Starmaker was touted as “country music for people who don’t like country music,” Honey Harper & The Infinite Sky is “country music for everyone.”