A fresh album release from Australian singer-songwriter Anna Scionti packs in so much character and personality that this is an album you have to listen to all the way through as the songs have such a beautifully acoustic soundscape with a very one-on-one approach and insanely detailed lyrics to the point where you can paint pictures in your head vividly while you're listening to certain songs.
The Sparrow and the Fox album gives off pieces of Anna with each individual song and in certain ways they feel like they may even interconnect with each other, but even if they don't connect in the form of what a concept album would be, each song serves as a chapter in Anna's life, and that to me speaks volumes for the artist as she is telling stories and giving off her inner thoughts in the form of music.
This was a gorgeously constructed record but there's just so much soul that you can't look away. Everything comes from a real place and was drawn or driven from some sort of emotional platform that affected her and so some of these songs feel like they must have been cathartic for her to write and release but for the listener, they can be not only vivid but relatable.
You have just beautiful sets of acoustic, natural instrumentation that all comes together to deliver a very warm and sort of welcoming atmosphere with an undertone of roots embedded in them.
Everything from resonators to cigar box guitars, acoustics, violins, everything is just lush and gives you the feeling of what a live performance might be like from the artist.
You even get harmonica, lap steel, and more and the crazy things including the cigar box guitar, resonator, last deal, acoustic guitars, and even harmonica.
Bringing in fellow friends and musicians for violin sections or backing vocals, she was able to build this record into something astounding and really gives off such a personal feel that it feels almost like sitting down with a friend you haven't seen in a long time.
This is the kind of thing you don't get often so when you do come across it, it becomes not only refreshing but also rejuvenating in a strange way.
Everything on this record is performed with soul and this kind of bluesy folk tonality and approach that pulls you away from wherever you are and puts you in this whole other world for a chunk of time.
You have to love stuff like this because it's so genuine and authentic that it immediately makes you want to go see her performant live in your face.
You can hear a slew of influences in the music but that blues and sort of southern tonality really on the forefront and she's amazing at it because she also uses her vocals as an instrument in certain ways as well.
There's so much to soak in during this record that I have to insist you listen to the whole thing from beginning to end just so you can get everything that it offers.
It was constructed with attention to detail and beautifully done but the performance is really what gets you because there's heart and their soul pumping through the veins of this record to the point where this is what makes it be.
That real authenticity is so wonderful, and you can tell that this is an artist that does it for the love of doing it.
An absolutely beautiful record from an artist that I will most certainly be paying a lot more attention to.
Check out Sparrow and the Fox as soon as you can and if you are a guitar player of any kind, it will immediately make you want to pick up your acoustic and write some kind of bluesy jam.
Have a good listen and you'll see what I mean.
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