In a world where (I know that sounds a bit AI written, I assure you it is not. But that is the sort of thing that people probably train AI to say) genre boundaries are already pretty fluid, C.S. Hellmann not only takes full advantage of those wandering sonic demarcations but uses such lack of rigidity to build his own sonic works in the liminal spaces once divided by such markers and boundaries.
But the old rules are now irrelevant, the gatekeepers fled, the landscape changed… for the better… and “Don’t Let The Songbirds Cry” is the sound of the modern music maker building that landscape anew.
Blending solid beats with dream-pop aesthetics, folk finesse with psychedelic-infused indie eloquence, it is the sound of Hellmann continuing his quest to explore, meld, merge, blend, and build. And as the song progresses, as the harsher digital tones and incendiary guitars are slowly introduced, we find the song walking a gorgeously fine line between the elegance of the familiar and the excitement of the exploratory. There is plenty to be found here that echoes music you already know, but there is just as much that feels new and forward-thinking.
Recorded at producer Jared Corder’s Polychrome Ranch, a cabin studio tucked into the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains, the song is both imbued with a sense of space and intimacy of such a remote location and captures something of the overbearing majesty of the landscape around it. A subtle song writ large!
I have probably said it before, but I talk a lot about post-genre music makers, and there is no finer example of such a creative as C.S. Hellmann.
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