People Crying In Cars
Snappy Little Numbers, 2021
8/10
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The musical project of Jim Fitzpatrick, as Falsetto Boy the veteran artist mixes a singer-songwriter formula with bedroom-pop, punk, indie and lo-fi ideas that represent a dark time in his life across these 2 discs.
“Cemetary Sunday” opens the listen with warm and melodic indie-rock that shimmers pretty bright with its thumping drums and swirling guitar, and “Clearing’s Light” follows with a calm, dreamy approach that’s quite reflective in its soothing tone.
Deeper into disc 1, “Some Day” gets a bit jangly in a ‘90s college rock sort of way, while “Living Room Song” offers 2 minutes of poetic singer-songwriter ideas that benefits from cooing backing vocals. The final track on this portion, “The Old Road”, emits much beauty in its acoustic template and cozy vocal harmonizing.
The 2nd disc leads with the scrappy, punky and power-pop fueled “You Are The Highway”, which is a fantastic tune, but it’s eclipsed by the strumming and gorgeous “Wading Through With Smiles”, that’s quite luminous in its textured landscape. “Hungry Ghost” exits the listen eloquently, amid a nearly cathartic atmosphere.
A very thoughtful affair that’s actually filled with much optimism, there’s much diversity from track to track, as Fitzpatrick shows us many avenues of his talent, and it makes for a very engaging listening experience.
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