Track Of The Day TREECHANGERS
While someone could be mistaken by his diverse and constantly changing monikers, The Boltons, English Summer, Bedroom Holiday, Air Belgrade and New Labour, among others, the compelling songwriting, dripping with emotional sincerity, of the talented South Australian musician and photographer based in Clare, Joel Carr, has remained fairly consistent over these last few years, inspired by the UK guitar pop sound, at times New Wave and Post-punk, of the 80s-early 90s.
A distinctive melodic quality beautifully encapsulated in his latest single as Treechangers, titled “Acquiesce”, the lead track of the just dropped, even more atmospheric 5-song EP “Galway”, an “ambient-pop track with a 90s haze about making decisions (mistakes) out of loneliness”, with the likes of The Ocean Blue’s “Cerulean.”
“Acquiesce” hops briskly along windswept, hazy introspective moods gathering glistening, strummed strands of guitar melancholia, blanketed with refulgent, drizzly, melting melodies anxiously trembling around sad, worried vocals, turning to an urgent, racing blur, evoking a sense of being hurried, anxious, and lost without a compass.
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