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Acoustic Sessions
Singer-Songwriter · 2014 · 4 tracks · 15m

Acoustic Sessions

A collection of skeletal, hushed re-imaginings. Just a voice and a guitar recorded so closely you can hear the artist's heart beating.

August 5, 2014 · Grönland Records

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Acoustic Sessions is the sonic equivalent of a secret whispered directly into your ear. It is an album that demands a specific kind of silence from its environment to be truly heard. William Fitzsimmons has built a career on the quietest possible frequencies, but here he strips away even the modest electronic flourishes of his studio LPs to find the marrow of his songwriting. The result is a record that feels less like a performance and more like a private document of a man in a room, wrestling with the ghosts of his own history. It is warm, brittle, and profoundly still.

Tracklist · 4 Tracks · 15m
01
Took (Acoustic)
5:08
02
Fortune (Acoustic)
3:48
03
Lions (Acoustic)
4:07
04
Centralia (Acoustic)
2:54
Moments Worth Listening For
The audible intake of breath before the first verse of Fortune, making the listener feel inches away from the microphone.
The way the acoustic guitar strings buzz slightly against the frets during the bridge of Centralia, emphasizing the raw recording.
The subtle, ghostly vocal harmonies that drift in and out like smoke on the stripped-back version of Lions.

How does Acoustic Sessions sound next to the rest of William Fitzsimmons's catalogue?

Sparse Bare+3.3σ

The production is built around sparse bare than this artist usually allows.

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