"don't you miss those dreams"
Hearing, absorbing "Box" by Northern Ontario, Canadian singer-songwriter / multi-instrumentalist, Jesse Harding, with it's somber sway and vocal aesthetic that carry along their own ghosts, I did think of Elliot Smith and not only because I have been missing the man as of late. That being said, Harding does not sound like Smith and has his own artistic sense about him but the deep emotionality here put me in that kind of funk that melancholy music will tend to. "Box" is from Harding's 2020 debut album, "Little Death", that you can find here on many platforms.
"Circles" has a vagabond heart and belongs in a Wes Anderson Film. "A Song For Home" feels like a Big Sur fog wrapping around you bitter sweetly. "Enough, So I don't Have to Worry" reminds me of 90's college rock radio, (a good thing) and the title track, "Little Death", will quite easily rip your heart straight out of your chest. A great, touching, quietly potent debut.
-Robb Donker Curtius
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Jesse Harding, singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist hailing from Northern Ontario, Canada known for his melancholy and infectious material that deals with a wide range of emotional experiences. With his 2020 debut album, “Little Death”, Harding makes his presence known with brutally honest, somber yet hopeful recordings. “Little Death” showcases Harding’s unique composition skills as it was written, performed, recorded and mixed entirely by himself in the span of a single week. The isolation felt during the writing and recording process bleeds into each and every track, highlighting feelings of isolation, alienation, distance and loneliness via an innocent and honest approach.
Released in 2020 during a global pandemic, an unprecedented time of physical and emotional distance, “Little Death” offers listeners an escape to a comfortably familiar place, a place to make peace with feelings often considered painful and unwanted.
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