"oh my god, oh my god, oh my god it's real / this is really happening..."
I am feeling a classic 70's garden rock / broad pop canon sound while falling into "Black Pool" by Portland's Layperson, the musical project of singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist Julian Morris and collaborators. It is the pearly folk rock guitars, the pushed bass / drum rhythms, the Fender Rhodes-esque piano and, maybe most of all, the evocative vocal countenance and melodies. Julian's vocal push and overall sound eschews current indie tropes but instead seems to pull those seeds from before, like the amalgamic DNA of artists like Buffalo Springfield, Traffic, Bread, Fleetwood Mac.
"Black Pool" is from Layperson's upcoming full-length out this fall on Lung Records.
-Robb Donker Curtius
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Julian Morris situates his music at contrasting intersections. It's a music that is at once emotionally urgent and yet brimming with graceful patience; tender and vulnerable while still forceful and resilient. Over the course of 10 years, he has found a home for his music as Layperson, a name which too confronts a contrasting dialectic. The music can sound big, it speaks loudly and can be heard clearly. And yet Julian's songs are very much about their core humanity, the grounding of oneself in being with oneself. The inward gaze revealing the heart and mind we extend outwardly. His latest full-length album, Massive Leaning, due out 11/10/23 via Lung Records, reflects a songwriter deeply in tune with transforming the personal to the universal. Songs of grief, wanting, acceptance, and grace, the material presents an opportunity for musician and listener alike to come into awareness. This alignment between performer and audience pushes breath into the songs and grants them a life all their own. - Sam Wenc (Post Moves)
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