SISTER HAZEL - Hole In Your Life - Rock Ridge Music

Since hitting the mainstream airwaves in the late 1990’s with their breakout smash “All For You,” Sister Hazel has melded their sonic flow of country, rock, and alternative into an illustrious career carved on a foundation of songs such as “Change Your Mind,” “Champagne High,” and “Your Mistake.”

Following their hotly received “Love You More” from late last year, the Platinum-Selling/Grammy-nominated band now returns with the next look at things still to come, “Hole In Your Life.”

Written by Hazel’s Drew Copeland and Emerson Hart of the rock band Tonic, the drop of guitar strum that pushes through the intro melts into the grittiness of the rhythm section to encapsulate a throwback feel that recalls a 90’s alternative sound, combining in a swarm of your senses as Ken Block’s unmistakable voice is intriguingly masked in a psychedelic like production that adds an airiness to the vibey flow.

However, underneath the layers of melody sits very poignant, very necessary lyrics that hold pure encouragement in each word as they speak directly to those who are experiencing an inevitable down moment while feeling discouraged in trying to find their way out of it.

With the broad shoulder of an understanding friend grasped in a boldness to faithfully trust that this too shall pass, Sister Hazel expertly gives you the okay to not be okay in this moment while encouraging you to keep moving forward until you come out the other side to your better tomorrow, offering sound advice to not let your current hurt make you grow colder and reminding you that the peaks and valleys of life are simply part of being alive and nothing to worry about.

With a drive into the chorus that lifts the melody, it becomes your redemptive moment as you begin to slowly believe that you can, and will come out the other side of whatever your facing:

“There’s a hole in you life

Where you thought you were

Where thought you’d be

Ohh you wish that you could see

Sometimes

All the mistakes that you know you made

To begin again

All the choices to defend

This time”

Through a balance of modern strikes and 90’s rock sensibilities, Sister Hazel bookends where they come from with where they’re at, giving a full circle feeling to their newest material that has you nostalgically dipping into your memory bank of when you first heard them on your radio while recognizing their keen ability to freshly bring you into their anticipated next chapter.

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)

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