Australia’s international folk troubadour Steve Smyth releases his hauntingly beautiful, brass led, second single ‘Yours Sincerely’ today, from his forthcoming EP, Blood.
An ode to writing and receiving handwritten letters, where personally crafted correspondence was saturated in excitement and promise. ‘Your Sincerely’ speaks to an era where communication held meaning longer than 140 characters and drove sincere human connection.
“Letters from family and lovers grip the hand of those in need of comfort and courage, as handwritten lines transform into the warmth of a mother’s embrace or the devotion in a lover’s longing,” said Steve
“’Yours Sincerely’, is a love letter to how communication used to feel, and though written and recorded before our current global calamity, its tone is fatefully poignant.
“Against the current backdrop of global isolation, personal connectivity is our new struggle and battlefield and I want to evoke questions of how we connect and examining the division our modern methods of communication create.”
Musically, ‘Yours Sincerely’ is an eloquently unassuming union of acoustic guitar against a warm backdrop of brass and strings, unifying the robustly bare beauty of Smyth’s lyricism, which contests equal parts of poise and anguish. |