Running on a piano hook that feels like a transmission from another time and a vocal countenance soaked in melancholia and a bit beat up, "Dying Is Easy" by Fort Collins, Colorado's Third Ward feels like a somber 1980's movie written by playwright Sam Shepard that deals with lost people who find each other. As the easy drum cadence, acoustic strums, a plaintive synth line, sort of Lou Reed-esque bass sway and western noir hollow body guitar embellishments all framed against singer-songwriter Andrew Martin's earnest homespun voice you get lost in it all.
"Dying Is Easy" is not all down and out, there is the sense of coming together, of hope underneath it all. In the end, it feels like the evocative escapism of a great indie film shot on 16mm.
-Robb Donker Curtius
https://www.instagram.com/third_ward_music/
Third Ward is a rock n roll band from Fort Collins, CO. Andrew Martin (songwriter, singer) is a dad with a dayjob, but the songs and albums won't ever stop. In the studio, Martin has worked with Joshua James as well as Spencer Peterson (Sego) and Nate Pyfer (Pinguin MOFEX), and Third Ward has shared the stage with the likes of The Milk Carton Kids, Sun June, Why Bonnie, Sego, and Demob Happy.
No meteoric rise here. This one's a long time comin'.
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https://www.instagram.com/third_ward_music/
Third Ward is a rock n roll band from Fort Collins, CO. Andrew Martin (songwriter, singer) is a dad with a dayjob, but the songs and albums won't ever stop. In the studio, Martin has worked with Joshua James as well as Spencer Peterson (Sego) and Nate Pyfer (Pinguin MOFEX), and Third Ward has shared the stage with the likes of The Milk Carton Kids, Sun June, Why Bonnie, Sego, and Demob Happy.
No meteoric rise here. This one's a long time comin'.
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