"Downtime" by Significant Other is wistful fast moving sonic imagery

photo by Daniel Palacios

Significant Other is the musical solo project of Montreal based singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist Michael Wexler (Inlet Sound). The song Downtime trades wistful fast moving sonic imagery and time signatures with beautiful ascending sounds. Wexler's vocal aesthetic is intimate and comfortable like a friend confiding with you over drinks. The melodic guitar lines, keys and bass drawn jammy shuffling drum beats create a framework of remembrances, your own and his. It is a pristine indie light rock sound with alt folk leanings. I thought of Ben Gibbard a bit as I listened. 

Downtime might just refer to Wexler's step away from the public (in some way), his 5 year absence since Inlet Sound but what a great musical introduction to Significant Other. 

Recorded at Studio Plywood & Studio Madame Wood (Montreal)

Michael Wexler - Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Piano
Marie-Claudel Chénard - Backing Vocals, Bass Guitar, Electric Guitar
JP Levac - Drums, Percussion
Marilyse Senécal - Backing Vocals

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Robb Donker






THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:

Five years after the end of his last musical project Inlet Sound, Montreal-native Michael Wexler is stepping forward into his first solo-project with the name Significant Other. Under the new moniker and striving for both energy and intimacy, Michaelʼs first forthcoming release “Kimberlite” is built from the output of a brain constantly seeking serotonin while over-analyzing every incoming and outgoing signal from the past years.

This musical project is a deeply personal attempt to put voice and lyric to the ever-changing circumstances of a life examined. Stepping away from collective songwriting towards solitary musings that are vulnerable and unapologetic has been the trajectory of this project, although it has stalled for the last number of years – but as the new decade rears its head, it seems as though it is time to bear fruit.