With one other album to spherical out the 12 months, Denim Dan has served the airwaves as soon as extra together with his tender harmonies, nostalgia-beckoning instrumentals and lyricism that at all times is aware of which emotive triggers to goal for.
Because the standout single on Circe, the 70s-inspired orchestral folk-rock ballad, Circe’s Track (Save Me) reveals Denim Dan at his most affecting; whereas he by no means is available in heavy-handed, the fragile ornate grace of this launch allowed the singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist to achieve his diaphanous zenith.
The way in which the chamber orchestral strings pull in opposition to the regular rings of the acoustic guitar beneath Dan’s organically aching timbre ensures this plea for sanctuary resounds with uncooked humanist realism.
Between the reflections on existential plight and the poetic projections of a have to discover a soul to bolster your individual, everybody can discover a fragment of themselves inside Circe’s Track (Save Me); the fortunate will meditate on the one with gratitude for kindred spirits and soul mates, whereas the lonely will discover comfort that they’re by no means as alone of their alienation as they really feel they’re.
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Evaluation by Amelia Vandergast