Fellow Hollow and the ethereal story telling of "True Aquatic Empathy"

 

"with big ideas and tides of hunger..."

The track "True Aquatic Empathy" with it's percussive, slightly dirty keys letting go melodies that seem to ascend onward like released balloons is an exercise in tenderness. The droning synths, staggered beats that feel maybe 8 decibels too loud in a purposeful way (love this) moves the song outward instead of upward, anchoring the ethereal track. Fellow Hollow is Luke Elliot Fleeman and Andrew Gavin Williams. Co-conspirators, co-writers who met in 2010 as members of a twee folk band in central Ohio, Luke on accordion and percussion and Andrew singing and playing ukulele. 

"True Aquatic Empathy" feels lyrically (to me) that Luke and Andrew may have employed some improvisation writing in some spots and in other areas not so much. It gives the piece a vacillating dreaminess like one drifting in and out of reality. Other songs on the album "Violet Paper Wings" feel more folk oriented but they all tell stories via piano or acoustic guitar as the central medium, paper, or computer screen for the narrative and what lovely dreamy stories they are. 

-Robb Donker Curtius

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Fellow Hollow is the songwriting duo of Luke Elliot Fleeman and Andrew Gavin Williams. They both grew up in central Ohio and met in 2010 while playing in a twee pop / folk-rock band. At that time, Luke was playing accordion and percussion and Andrew was playing mostly ukulele and singing. In 2015 they started writing songs just the two of them and the result was the 2016 EP When You Love the Same People, You Love Each Other. Most of that first EP features meandering and self-harmonizing vocals over layered acoustic guitar. In the space between their first release and their upcoming release from Diversion Records, Violet Paper Wings, the folky acoustic sound which sprouted from the first batch of songs has blossomed into a lusher, more composed spread of indie folk, synthpop, and alternative rock. It’s a dreamier sound; melodic finger picked guitar is encompassed by warm synths and punctuated by bellowing grand piano and roomy live drums.

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