Langhorne Slim & The Law: The Spirit Moves

Sometimes, truth can’t be explained. But it can be felt, running wild through a song.
“I don’t want to tame myself, I want to be wild,” says Langhorne Slim. “If I can continue to refine the wildness but never suffocate or tame it, them I’m on the right path. Because it is a path. I feel it.”
The Spirit Moves is Langhorne’s newest artistic attempt to refine the wildness. The result is an effervescent collection of his now-signature, cinematic, joyful noise, rooted in folk, soul, and blues.
The Spirit Moves is a stunning portrait of Langhorne’s life in transition: the “born to be in motion and follow the sun” rambler found a home in Nashville. While he’s put down roots in a place, he’s unattached to a person, single for the first time in recent memory.
The Spirit Moves is also the first album of his career written and recorded entirely sober. Together, the record’s beautiful glimpses of bold beginnings and risks taken create an ode not only to a better life, but to the vulnerability needed to live it.
It seems that Langhorne Slim has put his entire mind and soul into this one. What emerged is a record that delights in contradiction: freewheeling but purposeful; celebratory but confessional; looking to light even when it’s dark. Langhorne’s voice – an arresting howl sublimely at home in a Mississippi roadhouse or on a Newport stage – has never sounded better. This is really cool!