Bobby Sant has with his debut compiled a highly acoustic track list
infused both with sensitive awareness and a considerable amount of punk
attitude. Except for small guest contributions of piano, harmonica and
electric guitars, the songs is entirely about Sant's sharp, chanting
vocals, rooted somewhere between dark blues and dreamy folk music, and
his fingerpicked guitar. Bobby Sant stands alone in the songs as well as
in the studio and the desolation is a significant theme going through
the whole album. The desolation created after the ones you've left
behind, but also in the missing of the ones you haven't met yet and of
the situations not yet experienced. "Music is life and death for me,
literally. I think I'm a person seeing the world in black or white. The
grey parts just don't interest me" "It's just a lonely feeling" is
rooted in a blend between ancient folk and the contemporary indie scene
in a similar way as acts like Devendra Banhart, Joanna Newsom, and Fleet
Foxes. Sants' songs might not feature any lush vocal harmony
arrangements but is still creating a highly intense and dreamy
soundscape. And like two other big names in the genre, the fellow Swede
The Tallest Man on Earth and Kentucky's Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Sant lets
his songs be built up by battered and broken elements as well as
sincere and tender ones. As a little bonus, the cover photos are taken
by Katie Van Zandt, the daughter of the one and only Townes Van Zandt!
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