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Album Review: Joshua Seymour - Rope Tied Hope

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"Possessing a husky, straining, half-whisper of a voice Seymour paints a warm patina over the dozen songs."

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.