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Robert Nichols discovers a potent album of inner battles and outer landscapes on the North East artist’s new album
Self-release
Released: 01.07.23
North East artist Jack Aaron Greensmith stands at a crossroads, contemplating, acoustic in hand. His album is full of inner battles, outer landscapes, and time and tide ebbing away. It’s a lonely journey from the bedroom where the album has been recorded as a stripped-back return to his acoustic roots. Will he break out from the comfort, safety and security of those four walls? Will the never ending sea that surrounds be a sea of opportunity or restraint, the open water of foreboding and anxiety?
Deploying a deliberately restricted palette, Jack Aaron Greensmith’s broad bush strokes are applied through rhythmic strumming and dark, tremulous vocals. The songs have simple construction and restricted lyrics, meaning a sudden up or down turn in mood possesses real potency. A memorable album of naïve charms.
