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The lush orchestration and gravelly vocal intonation that characterizes this album from singer/songwriter Hayden Desser fails to mask the simple beauty and devastating melodic impact that these 16 songs impart. Desser is an introspective fellow. His music barely crawls along, heavily weighted by its lyrical catharsis. Songs such as ‘Home By Saturday’ and ‘Robbed Blind’ are as much built around the confessional narratives as they are the bouncy acoustic arrangements. And while the instrumentation is subtle throughout, with a scratchy guitar carrying the brunt of the rhythm, strings leap boldly into the mix on occasions to elevate the tone considerably. This is an evocative and mature recording, every bit as compelling and convincing as Neil Young’s Harvest – undoubtedly an influence – yet possessed enough of its own voice so that it sits as a strikingly assured contribution to the burgeoning nu folk/country genre.
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