My first encounter with Nathaniel Paul was via his effortlessly sublime “Girl With No Tatoo,” a song I related to, a song that reminds us that in the world of music making, where fad and fashion, celebrity style and ingenuous and forced outsider attitudes run rife, not everyone succumbs to its garish, style-over-substance, in the most literal sense of the phrase, ways.
“When Stars Weep” sees him in the similarly understated and gorgeous musical territory, giving us a deft, finger-picked slice of folk-infused acoustica, soulful and serene, again celebrating the object of his devotion and doing so with just a voice and a guitar. Simple, eloquent, elegant!
This is music made for the best of reasons: to honor a significant other, to celebrate love, and to remind us all to hold tight to those fleeting moments, the ones that matter most, those heartfelt connections, those times when we bare our souls to each other, in a world where the winds of change and chaos are always trying to break such bonds.
This is a love song in the truest sense of the meaning. Forget all those sappy romances that the gap-year troubadours would try to convince us are real, all those songs that rhyme Moon with June and belittle the most powerful emotion in the universe, this is the real thing—a vulnerable and visionary celebration of love, but love that encompasses not just the heart, but the very soul.
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