/Indie folk, Anti-folk, DIY, Dream
folk, Folk indie, Alt-folk, Drone folk, Singer-songwriter, Americana/
Comment: I can`t remember exactly for when I
first met Paul Kintzing`s curated project. It might be I had first become
acquainted with it through CLLCT, the glorious site for gathering up
do-it-yourself/bedroom musicians across the USA and partly from worldwide
either. Unfortunately this site has been down for a while. But I still hope it
will be revived sometime. Indeed, the artist`s first issues had been issued in
the ending part of the 00s, at the time CLLCT was blossoming and expanding. By
listening to his sophomore release To
Carry Alongside being relied on Bandcamp it can be said it is a solid issue
because of involving intriguing yet highly sustainable compositions. The topic
is about something of modern folk expansions where guitars and vocals are
accentuated with different instruments, including keyboards and electronics.
Kintzing is assisted by Shelly Lites,
and Joan Perez (singing), and Matthew Sigur (bass drums and singing) with
regard to some pieces. The mood is restrained yet somehow festive (due to using
semi-orchestrated strings, concrete sounds and expanding, subtle drones in the
background). The issue includes a shitloads of great tracks from within the
12-track whole (at a length of 28 minutes only – this kind of shortness was
quite symptomatic to many albums under CLLCT because embracing mostly
singer-songwriter stuff/folk-based sound). Let`s get caught up in it.
