In what is very likely to be a very productive year musically Langhorne Slim leads it off with an album of pandemic inspired songs called “Strawberry Mansion.” It’s his seventh album and he might as well have called it “What I did during the covid quarantine.”

The album began in a dark time for Slim, or Sean Scolnick which is his real name. He lives in Nashville and had barely survived a devastating tornado when the pandemic hit. he was in recovery from drug addiction and began to associate his sobriety with the new normal of the lockdown.

As therapy for his recovery he was challenged by a friend to write a song a day for twenty days in a row and doing it broke long period of writer’s block. Most of the songs are bare bones minimum instrumentally but the lyrics take on his many demons like mental health, loneliness, spirituality and, eventually hope.

Especially suited to these strange times, Langhorne Slim’s "Strawberry Mansion" is ultimately positive and likely to be the first of a creative surge of albums inspired by the year of the quarantine.

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