For many, the world during lockdown was a surreal and scary place. However, the feelings of strangeness and fear seems to have largely passed John Calvin Abney by. During 2020 and 2021 he drifted along quite happily crashing at friends’ homes in California and Austin, Texas. Through it all he says he ”felt like a tourist, but not in a gaudy, intrusive way.”
Equally, there’s nothing gaudy or intrusive about the music that came out of this experience. The nine tracks on his sixth full-length release are calm and dreamy as though he didn’t have a care in the world.
For instance, the lazy vocals and gentle melody of Holy Golden West evokes the laid-back, sun-kissed mood of San Francisco Bay Area. Abney describes this track as ”a metaphor for comfort, paradise or safety.”
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On Leave Me At The Shoreline, Abney sings ”I need a vacation” but hardly sounds under any stress.
Listening to this album, you’d be excused for thinking that the curse of Covid was a boon for holiday makers everywhere. Virus, what virus?
John Calvin Abney’s website
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