If the singles are sent out ahead of an album release to give the audience a taste of what’s to come, beguiling them with the promise of something special on the horizon, that day is now upon us. And while songs such as “Ocean of Hours” and “If We Could Escape,” which paved the way, hinted at an extraordinary album to follow, perhaps even they did prepare us for just how good, just what a sublime set of songs Red Sky Warning proves to be.
And while David Cloyd might have opened this album with the aforementioned singles, this is anything but a case of front-loading the album. So after the former’s dark, indie-folk music on time and the latter’s musing on restlessness and escape from the mundane and the familiar, we also find ourselves in new and rewarding pastures.
“Cage of Water” echoes with all the musical verve of Jeff Buckley, an ornate music that traverses folk, indie, and rock zones on its way to the rarefied air of that place where classic songs congregate. “Drive With Me” is another escapist metaphor, although it can also be taken in a purely literal sense, sitting on the cusp of folk and pop yet never weighed down with either genre’s cliché or baggage, infectious and celebratory. And “Walk the Earth” is found in the more hushed realms that echo Nick Drake, only perhaps his sound as it might have been captured on a record today.
And given that this is Cloyd’s first album in a decade, I will end on a purely selfish note and say, please don’t leave it so long next time; people need this music in their lives…I need this music in my life.
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