Album Review: Joshua Seymour - Rope Tied Hope

Seymour from Cherrywood has stepped out on his lonesome for an album that digs deep into emotive and dark Americana.

There are touches of Bon Iver, Iron & Wine and occasionally the band Spain in his gothic-sounding songs ornamented with stately piano, pedal steel, handclaps and all manner of stringed instruments. Possessing a husky, straining, half-whisper of a voice Seymour paints a warm patina over the dozen songs that adds a lived-in quality to his elegant songwriting and rich arrangements. An accomplished and impressive take on the haunting corners of Americana music.