There is no greater moment than listening to the radio and discovering an incredible song by an artist you’ve never heard of. As much as I obviously embrace the technology of this era (I’m writing this while e-mailing from my phone), I’ve always longed for the Almost Famous days of music discovery. Sadly, the current landscape of radio in the United States doesn’t allow for this to occur. Thankfully, though, these moments of discovery are still possible with the UK’s Radio 1 and Australia’s triple j.
I was listening to triple j’s morning show this afternoon (timezones are honestly the weirdest), when they played this gem, and I immediately had to know everything about it. “The Breach” is a track from Dustin Tebbutt, a songwriter who spent two years in the depths of Stockholm creating his album. Like another famous musical hibernator, Dustin’s sound is spacious, layered, and hella folky. The video is perfectly lo-fi, as well.
His album, the same name as this track, is on the horizon and promises similarly atmospher-folk (a genre I just created as genre names are usually dreadfully presumptuous.)
Watch the video for “The Breach” here:
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