Jacob King and the folk indie nostalgic steep of "Organic Tea"

 

"I derealized my life for a day, and I think / That I lost the best day of my life / And I looked at my hand, and I felt nothing there / So I just went on to bed..."

Steeping in "Organic Tea" by Buffalo, New York singer-songwriter / guitarist Jacob King feels good, warm and inviting and within 20 seconds in I flashed on a dozen things: Wes Anderson movies, the halcyon days of artists like Van Morrison, Harry Chapin, Hothouse Flowers, Kevin Morby, The Waterboys, The Beatles and Ireland (the island). There is something beautifully vintage, kind of 70's garden rock meets, Irish folk meets 80's New York busker punk happening here. 

The rambling nature of the country rock that feels like a three sided added mix of folk indie, jangle pop and Brit pop give this song such an iconic and earnest feel. It does in fact feel like a lost track from days gone by, way gone by. I love Jacob's sagely vocal countenance and the built in quirky wanderlust and if I were to abbreviate my long list of descriptors I would live and die with "Organic Tea" feeling like a collision of The Kinks and Van Morrison. In any time or universe I would call that high praise indeed. 

Some added fun facts. "Organic Tea" was recorded on 4 track cassette (fucking nice!) in Fredonia and Buffalo New York and is released through Foxhead Record Co. (instagram.com/foxheadrecordco).

-Robb Donker Curtius

Jacob King · Organic Tea

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Singer-songwriter / guitarist

Buffalo, NY

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