How beautiful it is to exist at the same time as Adrianne Lenker
In the halfway months of twenty-twenty, I spent a vast amount of my mornings nestled against a solitary tree in a field, a stones throw from the house I grew up in. I don’t remember what it was that made me feel so safe there, amidst a time so saturated with worry. I do, however, remember that I was listening to Adrianne Lenker.
Searows loves you carefully with new EP, ‘End of the World’
There’s an endearing quality in the vulnerability of modern folk music that provides a warmth akin to that of visiting the house I grew up in, or contemplating that one love that never really materialised. Such ruminations are inevitable in the hands of Pacific Northwest native, Alec Duckart, also known as Searows.
‘Calico’ paints a sonic romance between Ryan Beatty and collaborator, Ethan Gruska.
About half-way through Brockhampton’s ‘Saturation III’, you’ll hear the voice of a twenty-year-old Ryan Beatty singing the hook on ‘BLEACH’; a track that shook the walls of nearly every house party I went to in 2017. Painfully unaware that Beatty’s career would run parallel with my music taste for the six years to follow, I continued to admire him from a distance.