The Furious Seasons - Home All Day, Home All Night

David Steinhart writes and sings most of the 12 songs on Home All Day, Home All Night. Steinhart doesn't try to hide the fact that this project was written and recorded during the pandemic. Living in Los Angeles, he was - like the rest of SoCal - home all day and night, most the time. When you can't go out and play, though, many stayed in and played music. Steinhart created plenty of enjoyable folk-ish music during this downtime, and we're all the better for it.

Steinhart wrote all but one of these inclusions. The one exception, David Bowie's "Changes." This familiar Bowie song was initially recorded way back in 1971, a time when the '60s were coming to an end and the '70s were just beginning. The hippie culture was on the wane, and glam, disco and punk were just around the corner. The Vietnam war was also finally coming to an end. There's a great documentary on Apple, which goes into great detail about this pivotal year in music. Steinhart leaves the lyrics and melody the same on his version of the tune but slows down the tempo considerably. It's as though he's thinking about its words seriously while singing them.

So many of these song lyrics take on new meaning when read in the light of COVID-19. These include "Long Vacation" because we've all experienced a long vacation from normal life, and "We Finally Get Fall," which may well speak to how all the seasons just seemed to run together during 2020.

No matter what he may be singing about, though, Steinhart has one of those pained, sincere singing voices that makes everything sound attention worthy. It looks like many of us will be home all day and night for a little while longer, so this is a fantastic album to put on while waiting for the world to correct itself.

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