Long Voyage Home reveals himself on powerful LP, "The View From Halfway Down"
Crafting together a superfluously powerful debut record titled The View From Halfway Down, we’re absolutely loving this output from Long Voyage Home. Please read on for our full breakdown of the album, as well as a background on the artist.
Helmed by Jesse, his musical project called Long Voyage Home has been in the works for quite a while. Having played guitar since 12, been part of bands since he was 15, and finally beginning work on originals, his debut is here and it has delivered. Getting sober had a lot to do with it and it’s basically fueled the context of this powerful record. Sincerely, we can’t wait for everyone to give this a close and focused listen.
Contextualizing his life into 8 songs, coming in at right around 35 minutes in length, Jesse explores his path to rediscovery and learning to love himself again. The struggle is what fueled his music, but it feels like the love and passion of it all never really left him. Kicking things off on the opener “Fire & Oxygen”, he immediately sets the tone for the rest of the record and immerses the listener into his unique sound and style.
Staying relatively stripped back on the instrumentation side, this is a classic singer/songwriter record that surrounds you with Jesse’s vocals and emotional acoustic guitar playing. One song after the other, the stakes feel like they’re consistently rising as you learn a little bit more about the person behind the music. Some standouts for us were “Burning Bridges”, “Empty Bottles”, and the closer “A Crack In My Heart”. Now that’s not to say that everything didn’t deliver, but for some reason lyrically those songs really drew us in in a way that the others didn’t. Slightly upping the game on the production side, all of the value really showed itself towards the end.
All in all, we felt this was a heavy listen of course given the content, but wow did it hit home after knowing his background. Truly, this was dense in the best way possible, but it also has received an overwhelming suggestion from us to give it a listen. This isn’t the type of album that you have on in the background as noise, rather something that you sit down with and actually give energy to connect those dots in the messaging. Regardless, you’re going to thoroughly enjoy it.
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