Hope You Fail Better

To make Hope You Fail Better, June enlisted Daniel Smith as producer/guru and as his band he chose players with whom he's been playing for over a decade from his home of Grand Forks, eye of the '97 flood. Nothing was sacrificed in terms of the playfulness and freshness of production for which Smith has become well-known as primary songwriter and brain-child behind his band the Danielson Family. On the album, June's written word is still in philosophy-speak, his melodies are still haunting, and his trademark vocals ‹ about which he's previously remarked that he sometimes finds himself ³singing in harmony with god, while most people hear this as an off-key whine' ‹ have never sounded better. At this juncture, while looking at June¹s body of work, one could likely draw comparisons to that of mid-period Dylan.