ALBUM REVIEW: Creekbed Carter Hogan Is a Court Jester of the Apocalypse on 'Peasants Revolt'

“I hear it’s warmer than it ought to be / up there at the start of the Mississippi,” Creekbed Carter Hogan sings on “Burn.” “And the evergreens are like candle trees / they’re leaning into the burn.”The third track on Carter&

ALBUM REVIEW: Creekbed Carter Hogan Is a Court Jester of the Apocalypse on 'Peasants Revolt'
ALBUM REVIEW: Creekbed Carter Hogan Is a Court Jester of the Apocalypse on 'Peasants Revolt'

“I hear it’s warmer than it ought to be / up there at the start of the Mississippi,” Creekbed Carter Hogan sings on “Burn.” “And the evergreens are like candle trees / they’re leaning into the burn.”

The third track on Carter’s new Peasants Revolt starts on a tense Appalachian simmer, but launches into propulsive highway Americana at the midpoint. It’s an open-road song consciously written in the final gasps of the petroleum era.

“Let it burn,” Carter sings.