august for dawn and the chased modern dime store novel stories of "Methanol"

 

"reminds me that we're due back home / I'll keep my eye on every road / you said you'd find someone / that looks like me..."

The chased modern dime store novel stories of "Methanol" by august for dawn, the solo project of New Zealand's Charles Everley Ryder (Yumi Zouma), feels at once vast and intimate drawing you in and wondering about the back stories, the seeds behind it all. I love Charlie's voice laced with introspection and sadness and the way he constructs his melodies. "Methanol" is the kind of song you want to hear performed and even figure out and sing yourself. It has one of those curious elements about it that feels like if you sang and played it on guitar you would purge something... sadness, little demons, something. The torn atmospheres are even made more so by the sparse framework enhanced by dark orchestrations of sounds and perfectly echo laden atmospheres. 

I hope this song ends up in a theatrical movie or the next Netflix or Hulu binger because it deserves to be. 

-Robb Donker Curtius  

THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM 

https://open.spotify.com/artist/341FERpUs67dsJTZBHAX9Z


https://www.instagram.com/augustfordawn/

https://x.com/augustfordawn

https://www.anniversaryrecords.com/

https://www.facebook.com/augustfordawn



I can barely navigate the hellish vortex between breakfast and dinner let alone the labyrinth of the hockey field



august for dawn, New Zealand, solo project of Charles Everley Ryder, member of the band Yumi Zouma), "Methanol", dark folk, indie rock, ballad, busker punk, dark orchestral sounds, diaristic storytelling,