NYC based Sylvan Paul's haunting melancholia of "Tomorrow" from his "Freedom" EP

"write myself an elegy... tear it up"

Written and recorded during the first two weeks of the quarantine, NYC based Sylvan Paul's haunting melancholia of Tomorrow slowly simmers on electric guitar, a beat and Paul's deep vocal resonance. His voice with a road weary persona, at once tender and broken but muscular in tone is what easily pulls you into the atmosphere. That place can be many things but as I listened I thought of the insides of a smokey lounge but no walls present, just the guts of the lounge with Paul on a small stage in the middle of a dark western desert. I guess Paul's aesthetic here feels so haunting and mysterious that he pushes surreal buttons, at least in my brain.

Of the song, Paul shares:

"I recorded this song, and the subsequent EP it's a part of, in the first two weeks of the quarantine here in NYC. It was my attempt to chronicle what I was going through and seeing around me. It doesn't address Covid-19 in direct terms lyrically, but I think it's fairly obvious that it's the emotional underpinning of the song. I guess you could say it's kind of an existential quarantine ballad." 

Tomorrow is from Sylvan Paul's "Freedom" EP.

-Robb Donker Curtius

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