The thrill of the Hunt

Van Hunt is so awesome. Why are all the great voices getting dropped from their labels!?

This dude was so great live.

He is at the cutting edge of blending rock, soul, and pop. Surprisingly, Randy Jackson was in his corner. In fact, on Jackson's iTunes celeb playlist he included one of Hunt's tracks.

Anyway, as an FU for getting dropped, Hunt is releasing an album of previously unreleased material--for free and web-only. I think one of my favorite elements of this album is the multiple variations game on his own song "Anything (to get your attention)", with clever and even funkier/rockier re-hashes of a track off his first album. It just shows that this guy is a great songwriter who is capable of taking his music in so many exciting directions. That surplus of creativity is unbelievable. The whole new thing dropped May 8th. Here's some of that ish to make you get down with your bad self.

Here's the NPR spot on him that got me into his stuff a few years back.