A Schiele-esque painting, some pink plant, a blurry girl, of course, and a crooner breaking hearts along with a whole mess of plucked strings = Bronson’s video for “Promise.” Vimeo says that the album Paper Tusk, from which this song was pulled, was recorded in a cathedral up in Washington. Well, I’d say this track is too intimate to sound holy or even particularly reverent, but as its name suggests, “Purpose” is a track about life’s calling. In its private way, it does evoke high ceilings, colored light. Most impressive, I think, is that first fully-strummed chord and the breaking of voice like dawn, which transform what had previously sounded abrasive into a two-minute ode to clarity and small catharsis.
Paper Tusk is out November 29 on Solid Melts. Check out Bronson’s Bandcamp now.
• Bronson: http://bronson.bandcamp.com/album/paper-tusk
• Solid Melts: www.solidmelts.com
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