There’s always an enormous gap of hard-settling void we have to deal with when departing ourselves from a relationship. You don’t see it in our faces. We keep smiling and partying with you. But we’re neighbors to an emotional black hole in our subliminal. But isn’t it where the music begins? The difference in our own wavelengths and that pile of nothing inhabiting somewhere very near. Keep living with it. It’s only a matter of time that makes avoiding this delta easier. But until then, let’s write songs for the broken-hearted and lost. Hence, The following record is inspired by “an existential crisis that comes with the prospect of leaving a long-term relationship”.

[♫] Our Orthodox - “We’re Not the Only Ones”

Our Orthodox, the indie-folk project of Neil Harris has a new album We Are Not the Only Ones out. Harris keeps his songwriting to a safe corner, like Okkervil River songs without that dose of defiance. This makes the better part of his music easy listening and appealing. And…well it’s all recorded in a kitchen. Kudos!

Stream the whole album via bandcamp.

Photo: Florence Thomassin in Oral Fix from Katerina Jebb’s Simulacrum and Hyperbole, Gloria Maria Gallery, 2010 - via umanesimo

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