Following 2020’s The Neon Skyline, the Canadian singer-songwriter returns with beautiful, crisp, meticulous folk-pop, filled with narrative, clever philosophy and his delicate, engaging, falsetto voice. Telephone, a lovely, floating slow number with woodwind, and former Song of the Day has slight echoes of Cate Le Bon, and is one of several standouts, but opener Wasted On You is another beauty that shows Shauf’s gentle ironic humour, and is written from the perspective of God and Jesus watching two guys brainstorming an idea for their new startup: Christianity. God remarks: “Maybe I’ll send You down, give them a clue, then they’ll kill You, and I will ask them was all, My love wasted on you?” Telephone and Catch Your Eye especially are seen from the experience of the album’s title and tile track, a slightly wasted loner who dreams of more than his humdrum life, who in Catch Your Eye latter song tries to engage with someone he admires in a grocery store. Gently playful, on these and other songs, including the empathetically lonely Halloween Store where Norm pops up again, Shauf poses slightly mischievous and melancholy theological and philosophical questions out of this album, such as “What if God didn’t understand what love was?” Delicious from start to finish. Out on ANTI- Records.
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