"broken glass ain't rosey / love's a wilted posie / and even calling up Josie / don't bring me smiles..."
The broken baroque folk pop loveliness and loneliness of "Only Child", by Pacific Northwest singer-songwriter / producer Gabriel Blake, crushes your inner child heart like a soda can and warms your belly like hot chocolate on a foggy beach. The song has it's own tender orbit, the kind that could have graced an early Wes Anderson flick, back when his films were less staged and more melancholy. I absolutely love how Blake is able to brew up such a sad tea while making you smile. I suppose it his vocal countenance that feels so 'in the moment' pure, the tremble in his voice caresses the sorry whimsy right out of you making you feel your own youthful pain whether it was that crush that never became more or the more that splintered apart into a million pieces.
"Only child / you're a powder keg / lonely mistress / how should I beg you / for forgiveness..."
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Gabriel Blake is a songwriter and producer living in the Pacific Northwest. He has produced albums for March Adstrum and Hugo van Buuren, and scored Nick Roney's short film The Flute, which won the Grand Jury Prize for Midnight Shorts at SXSW Film Festival. Gabriel is just beginning his career as a solo artist after years of drumming and producing for bands like The California Poppies and Wild Abandon. He will be releasing more singles in 2025 and an album in 2026. Follow along if you please! :)
Apart from the beautifully charming acoustic guitar and word play that (for me) has the same kind of sonic nucleic acid of Paul McCartney, Elliot Smith, Jack White, James Taylor, Nick Drake (or an amalgam of all of them), there is the sense that the fiction contained in "Only Child" comes from factual places. I mean we all love a made up story but one full of truth are the really good ones. I need to mention the accompanying embracing strings are everything here, the string quartet arranged and performed by Oliver Hill (Sam Evian).
Love this song and looking forward to figuring it out on my old Guild.
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[Gabriel Blake is a songwriter and producer living in the Pacific Northwest. He has produced albums for March Adstrum and Hugo van Buuren, and scored Nick Roney's short film The Flute, which won the Grand Jury Prize for Midnight Shorts at SXSW Film Festival. Gabriel is just beginning his career as a solo artist after years of drumming and producing for bands like The California Poppies and Wild Abandon. He will be releasing more singles in 2025 and an album in 2026.]
-Robb Donker Curtius
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https://www.instagram.com/yung.bruegel/
https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/gabrielblake/only-child
Gabriel Blake is a songwriter and producer living in the Pacific Northwest. He has produced albums for March Adstrum and Hugo van Buuren, and scored Nick Roney's short film The Flute, which won the Grand Jury Prize for Midnight Shorts at SXSW Film Festival. Gabriel is just beginning his career as a solo artist after years of drumming and producing for bands like The California Poppies and Wild Abandon. He will be releasing more singles in 2025 and an album in 2026. Follow along if you please! :)
Gabriel Blake, singer songwriter / producer, acoustic folk, baroque pop, folk, indie rock, singer songwriter, "Only Child", beautiful string quartet, intimate, charming, melancholia, loveliness, loneliness, sad tea,
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