"and sometimes I dream but most nights I fall asleep"
Yellow T-Shirt by Belmont, California based singer-songwriter Leah Dunn is in her words, a "song for a sad friend" and it does have a sad sound. Like a lumbering melancholy giant, the song plods along on an exquisite fuzzy (synth) bass, down turned beat and droning synths. The feeling could be an anti-pop, avant garde 90's rock thing like (90's) radiohead (in a way, but not) as Dunn sings these poetic words laced with a worried pained patina:
seventeen and it feels the same
sometimes I dream that I missed the last train
aching head
sweat still breaking in
over again
scrubbing down my skin
cuz I'm so afraid
that I'm wasting
wasting my time
you say we're all afraid
that we're wasting
wasting our time
hey you in the Yellow T Shirt
why don't you stick around
The specific lyric "cuz I'm so afraid that I'm wasting, wasting my time" is both so relatable and sort of horrifying. A feeling that is so human for those humans who feel things too too much. I can tell you that feeling too much in a cosmic, universal way can take it's toll and this song kind of encompasses that feeling of rocks piling up around you till you can't climb out. Deep track. Dunn has a way of writing music that acts as a brain filter so you can distill your feelings. There are other lines in Yellow T-Shirt that do have glimmers but they flicker like a Christmas bulb that could live or die.
Yellow T-Shirt if from Dunn's 2020 full length "Wetsuit" which I implore you to check out and as always if you like what you hear, support this indie artist with your dollars.
-Robb Donker Curtius
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
spotify
https://www.leahdunndunn.com
My album, Wetsuit, is out now. Listen to it if you wanna use your brain.
Humblebrag press quotes about Bath, from Wetsuit:
"There are tunes that make us do double, even triple takes during its duration and leave us speechless. Such songs usually leave us in a state of disbelief, as could someone so young craft something with tremendous lyrical depth while mesmerizing with its patient yet jittery indie-rock approach? The only way to find out is to replay it again and again. This is what Leah Dunn has achieved with “Bath”." - The Revue (Staff).
"Dunn paints a narrative full of back stories to be imagined. In the end, Bath, is intriguing in many ways. It feels like a condensed version of one of those binge watching comedic dark dramas on Netflix." - Robb Donker Curtius, American Pancake.
"Lyrically, Leah delivers. She writes iconic lines." - Lefuturewave.
Leah Dunn (lee-uh done) is an indie artist from the Bay Area in California.
Dunn studied songwriting for three years at Interlochen Arts Academy and will be attending New York University to study recorded music.
Her work spans from sharp wit to introspective wanderings and draws from the influences of Courtney Barnett, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Sonic Youth, and Sharon Van Etten.
Dunn’s first EP (extended play), Oakland, was released May 4, 2019. She partnered with a Bay Area local non-profit, Lava MaeX, to raise awareness of homelessness in the music video for Oakland.
My album, Wetsuit, is out now. Listen to it if you wanna use your brain.
Humblebrag press quotes about Bath, from Wetsuit:
"There are tunes that make us do double, even triple takes during its duration and leave us speechless. Such songs usually leave us in a state of disbelief, as could someone so young craft something with tremendous lyrical depth while mesmerizing with its patient yet jittery indie-rock approach? The only way to find out is to replay it again and again. This is what Leah Dunn has achieved with “Bath”." - The Revue (Staff).
"Dunn paints a narrative full of back stories to be imagined. In the end, Bath, is intriguing in many ways. It feels like a condensed version of one of those binge watching comedic dark dramas on Netflix." - Robb Donker Curtius, American Pancake.
"Lyrically, Leah delivers. She writes iconic lines." - Lefuturewave.
Leah Dunn (lee-uh done) is an indie artist from the Bay Area in California.
Dunn studied songwriting for three years at Interlochen Arts Academy and will be attending New York University to study recorded music.
Her work spans from sharp wit to introspective wanderings and draws from the influences of Courtney Barnett, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Sonic Youth, and Sharon Van Etten.
Dunn’s first EP (extended play), Oakland, was released May 4, 2019. She partnered with a Bay Area local non-profit, Lava MaeX, to raise awareness of homelessness in the music video for Oakland.
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