After sacrificing an album
’s worth of http://www.steelersprosale.com/rocky-bleier-jerseys-c-1_20.html songs and a tried and true sound to the gods of artistic growth, Adelaide songwriter Timberwolf’s debut LP Íkaros has been an awakening several years in the making.If the two EPs he released in 2013 and 2015 saw Chris Panousakis roam amongst the moody banjos and torch song choruses of the post-2009 indie folk wilderness, on Íkaros all memories of Mumford & Sons are banished.
“I actually had another album written that was really close to what the last EP sounded like — a lot of those straight up and down folk rock songs,” Panousakis explains. “Then I went to a writing camp in Somersby near Newcastle, and had this fucking awesome session with Oscar [Dawson] from Holy Holy, Jonathan Boulet and then Jackson Barclay who actually became my co-producer for the album.“
All these people did for me was show me a different way to show my truth, my skill set,” he says. “It was spurred on by this discussion on [pre-album single] Hold You Up — we were talking about hip hop drums and 12-string guitars, and whether you could marry the two. Jackson was just like, ‘Why don’t we just try it?’ I’d never had anyone help get me out of my head. I was so excited to be presented this clarity and opened mind for the first time in years that I completely scrapped the old record, and wrote from those few songs onwards.”In its place, hip hop break-beats stutter under sinewy guitar and keyboard textures as sweeping melodies careen across songs that rarely feel the need to fit into familiar verse-chorus moulds. It
’s unlikely that Fleet Foxes frontman Robin Pecknold and Kendrick Lamar’s bass wizard Thundercat will ever feel the need to collaborate, but in the meantime Íkaros offers an intriguing thought experiment of what they might create.That newfound clarity also bled into the album
’s words. “Another thing I was really inspired by was the mantra for the lyrics,” Panousakis says. “Instead of trying to bury the message deep behind as many metaphors and textures as you possibly can, I was trying to stick to the mantra ‘if you wouldn’t say it to someone, don’t write it’.”The result sees him occasionally walk
http://www.steelersprosale.com/mike-webster-jerseys-c-1_72.html the line between blunt vulnerability and too-much-information-thanks, as on the album
’s stripped back centrepiece Why Don’t You Love Me, where he sings: “I find your jumper in the laundry, your poems in my kitchen and I see your face when I touch myself”. When delivered via an arching falsetto that swoops down into grainy baritone however, any oversharing is easy to stomach.
