Will Stratton
Hudson Valley folk musician Will Stratton returns with new single Tokens the first release from forthcoming album The Changing Wilderness released on 7th May via Bella Union.
photography credit: Josh Goleman
Talking about the track Stratton comments: “Tokens is a song addressed to the fraternal twins, the most frequent subjects of songs since songs were created: time and love. The afternoon that I was writing it, the weird weather we were having that summer was on my mind. I was thinking about how my perception of time is so tied to my perception of the changing seasons, and consequently, how my perception of time hasn't been quite as sharp as it once was. I was also thinking about the ending of one of my favourite movies, the 2014 Paul Thomas Anderson film Inherent Vice. The way time shimmers and shifts in that movie is fascinating to me, verging on hypnotic, and I was trying to evoke a little of that feeling in this song.”
The 10 tracks making up The Changing Wilderness came about from a four-year period of soul-searching and change for Stratton, where he knew he needed to change the way he wrote songs. “I was just really sick of introspection,” he says. “I had to write music that felt like it was engaging with the outside world, rather than focusing on what was going on in my own life like on my earlier records.” with the Trump Presidency, and rising right-wing extremism at the fore over the past years, Stratton set out to interrogate his country’s present crises. Asking questions rather than claiming to have the answers Stratton’s lyrical proes cuts through to the worst of human nature seeking a resolution.
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