Watson Park and the melancholy bloodletting and acoustic engine of "Boxes"

"the sound of pleading / i've heard the cadence once or twice / a lonesome breathing / past the point of compromise..."

The melancholy bloodletting and acoustic engine of "Boxes" by New Hampshire indie rock group Watson Park, chugs along in emotional ways, propulsive busker punk sort of ways. There is for me, sonic nods to a sparse post grunge aesthetic and 90's emo too and I flashed on both Elliot Smith and Nirvana Live on MTV's Unplugged circa 1993. Watson Park is comprised of primary singer songwriter Evan Joseph Ringle, Troy Hartmann on lead guitar (and vox), Rya Sinclair on drums (percussion) and Christian Raabe on bass guitar.

From LINER NOTES:

[The band started out as a group of high school friends with a passion for playing music together, and during their college years began writing and recording music in each other's bedrooms and basements. The result is a catalog of music written with an abundance of influence from some of Watson Park's favorite artists: Elliott Smith, Car Seat Headrest, and Pavement to name a few.] 

[“🄱🄾🅇🄴🅂” is about carrying memories and feelings in a place where those memories and feelings don’t matter anymore. but you still dwell in the physical space where they happened, around the same people and the same weather and that’s enough to make you feel like it never went away.]

[“🄱🄾🅇🄴🅂” was partially recorded in my bedroom in Somerville and our drummer's room in Brighton, Mass. We purposely added very little to the track than what was required, I think the minimalism focuses the song and it takes me to the exact feeling i was writing about.]

[It’s a very important song for me and touches on a piece of myself i still have a hard time articulating. i look forward to when i can explain it better than i am now.]

Apart from the core acoustic guitar, bass, drums atmosphere I am loving the pearly keys that feel sort of vintage like a Farfisa organ or Fender Rhodes. This intimate gentle ramble as a framework for the ernest vocals feel perfect.

"the sound of pleading,

i've heard the cadence once or twice,
a lonesome breathing,
past the point of compromise,
no redeeming of anything to make it right
even the thought of a better time can lose its charm"

"Boxes" is a follow up to Watson Park's 2024 full length album "Laurel".

-Robbert Donker Curtius   

THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM 

https://open.spotify.com/artist/75HGbFFWvBaXFPxBPq96rs

https://watsonpark.bandcamp.com/track/boxes

https://www.instagram.com/watson_park/

https://www.facebook.com/watsonparkbandpage/

Watson Park is a four-piece indie rock group based in southern, New Hampshire comprising of Evan Joseph Ringle on vocals and rhythm guitar, Troy Hartmann on vocals and lead guitar, Ryan Sinclair on percussion, and Christian Raabe on bass guitar. The band started out as a group of high school friends with a passion for playing music together, and during their college years began writing and recording music in each other's bedrooms and basements. The result is a catalog of music written with an abundance of influence from some of Watson Park's favorite artists: Elliott Smith, Car Seat Headrest, and Pavement to name a few. Watson Park's most recent record, "Safer Means of Travel" came out last May, with the album's title-track featured on 92.5 The River. Their current album "Laurel" dropped on July 26, 2024.

Watson Park, New Hampshire, indie rock, bedroom pop, lo-fi rock, folk, alt rock, new album "Laurel", new single "Boxes", intimate storytelling, emo, post grunge, busker punk,