"it's hard to put into the words / the years that have gone by..."
Listening to "In Good Time" by Australian indie folk singer/songwriter Harrison Storm might put you in a fragile state or alternatively maybe in a loving reminiscence of those you have loved throughout the years and those you have loved and lost. The percolating guitar movements and running bass provide a hurried tension, like time fleeting by at a pace where you cannot grasp it in time. Harrison has a voice that holds pain, melancholia and tears in repose all at the same time. The lyrics, that I will let you discover, might make you cry, it nearly did me as I could not believe how long it has been since I embraced my father and mother.
Liner notes note that Harrison [on "In Good Time," a nostalgic sepia-toned daydream of forgiving the past and running into the future, dwells in the depths of memory, of moments come and gone]
Of the track, Harrison says, “I went away on a writing trip last year to work on songs for the album and after the first few days, I was struggling to write anything I connected with. Every now and then I listen to very old demos of mine, to remind me of why I started songwriting. The demo that came up was of a song of mine, ‘Sense Of Home’ and as I was listening to this very first demo I made of this song in particular, I had this wave of emotion come over me.
“It was this intense feeling of acknowledging the time that had passed since I first wrote that song and now. The immense changes I've gone through and how different life is. The difference in the person I was then and the person I am today. Yet I'm still here writing songs, the thing I dreamt I'd be able to do with my days. So ‘In Good Time’ is almost a reply to ‘Sense Of Home’, a reflection on the passing of time. It’s me talking to the person I was when I wrote ‘Sense of Home’ all those years ago.'
Art has a way of letting you feel things you may not be able to touch on yourself because doing so on your own might be to painful. Yeah, art lets you reflect and sometimes purge things, sometimes allows you to forgive yourself.
-Robb Donker Curtius
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Under the cover of sand and waves, the fabled Australian beach life defined Harrison Storm’s formative years. An upbringing by the sea, in his quaint beachside hometown of Mornington, translated into a love of adventure that he still carries with him today. Diligently chasing his musical dream with a sense of urgency, he dropped out of university to solely devote his days to busking for tourists in Melbourne, eventually making enough to finance his 2015 debut EP Sense of Home, produced by friend Hayden Calnin. Its title track would place prominently on key streaming playlists, catching the attention of Nettwerk Records co-founder Terry McBride, who personally signed Storm after sending him a message on Facebook. A prolific indie-folk singer-songwriter, Storm's catalogue has already amassed 160+ million combined streams on Spotify. He has also made a name for himself on the road as an honest and charismatic performer with crowd pleasing confidence, playing alongside artists such as Snow Patrol, The Paper Kites, Ziggy Alberts, Gregory Alan Isakov, SYML and Hollow Coves. In addition to receiving radio support from worldwide tastemakers KCRW, Triple J and BBC Radio 2, Storm’s music has also been licensed to a wide variety of networks, including NBC (“The Blacklist,” “This Is Us”), MTV (“Teen Mom”), ABC (“American Idol”), CBS and more. For Fans Of: The Paper Kites, RY X, Novo Amor, Ziggy Alberts, SYML, Roo Panes, Hollow Coves, Dermot Kennedy, Charlie Cunningham.
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