The Full Spectrum: The Dear Hunter's Green EP

The Dear Hunter: Green EP

As far as personal preferences go, this particular EP in the Color Spectrum is hit or miss depending on how I'm feeling on a particular day. When I listened through the album the first time, I definitely was not feeling it at all and it was almost a year later when I finally appreciated the details and overall tone. On the surface, this is Dear Hunter's attempt at country songs with a healthy mixture of folk and singer/songwriter elements of the genre and less of the pop country that uses the words "cold beer" like a comma. And honestly, the faint twang of the occasional steel guitar is really the only element of these songs that make the genre bend from folk to country at least for 3/4 of the EP. However, by the time you reach the final green song, Inheritance, they've gone full folk and sounds like it would fit any Avett Brothers or Mumford and Sons album. Inheritance is one of those songs that have stuck out more and more as time passes and has eventually become on of my favorites in the Color Spectrum. It's one of those songs that just hits home after a greatly trying day that shook you to your core. The lyrics and tone of the song indicate the tail end of a hopeless struggle against a brick wall of a situation and you've finally realized that perhaps it's time a different path in an opposite direction. What I suppose I'm getting at here is, yes, Inheritance is a really great post-breakup song. You happy? I said it.