Gorgeously sensitive, intimate, uplifting, grounded but dream-like folk-pop debut by the singer-songwriter from County Armagh, with blissful but pointed songs of a mystical, spiritual, existential and relatable nature. White’s falsetto singing style has a lovely fragility reminiscent of Sufjan Stevens, and particularly of Villagers’ Conor J O'Brien, and being among the acts he’s toured with, this release will certainly also attract parallel fans. Suffused with acoustic guitar and swelling piano chords, White’s chord structure and lyrics are powerfully emotive, not least the title track, but there are many strong and beautiful numbers to enjoy here, including warmly uplifting, addiction-referencing former Song of the Day I Did Good Today, the prayer-like Righteous (Why Did I Feel Like That?), Rivers, opener O Holy Death, the punchy, stirring Red House Parlour, the touching detailed memories of 501s (“I was a kid with plastic gun / When I saw you dance with your friends in your 501s”) all the way to the scintillatingly beautiful and ghostly closing track, Deadwood. A stunningly mature, vividly sensitive and thoughtful debut. Out on Bella Union.
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