Album Review: Yhan Leal - Wilderness

What Leal describes as his ‘post-folk experiment’ moves away from the minimalist sound of first record, Sail Home.

The impeccable atmospheric production augments the sound with sparingly applied touches of bass and percussion and ingeniously blended vocal harmonies, best exemplified in El Camino. Leal’s eerie high register is reminiscent of Jeff Buckley, pure and haunting, whispering, soaring, and his dreamy lyrics paint images of boundless freedom and unending love. The perfectly titled Ethereal Light deploys delicately picked acoustic guitar, creating an airy and spacious, introspective sound.