Wentworth Kersey (WK) looks at roots music through the subconsciousness of a dream; anything is possible in the realm of its music, which is full of vivid details that are sometimes too hazy to be sensible, but always vibrant with beauty and mysteriousness. The band\u2019s acoustic folksy tunes have the naked earthiness of a folk romantic singing tales of trials and tribulations. But this duo seeks much more than the beauty of the outward simplicity of their songs. <\/p>\n
Like a child filling the world around its toys made alive only by imagination, WK fills their tunes with a rich underbelly of music and sounds that are faint almost to the extent that they almost become a product of the listener\u2019s imagination: a phantom limb that lingers angelically in the shadows of the music.<\/p>\n
Through WK\u2019s album series \u2013 O<\/i>, (O)<\/i>, and ((O))<\/i> \u2013 it suffices to say that this band\u2019s music is about creating a landscape more than about simply creating plain acoustic music that tells a story. But the band has their heart immersed in Americana. Even when they muster the audacity to sing the album\u2019s opening number \u201cBroken Down Knees\u201d in French, they lose none of their rootsiness in their jab at exoticism.<\/p>\n
The dreaminess of ((O)) <\/i>lies not only in its softly played musical lavishness. The vocals sing with a sort of equanimity that\u2019s as pastoral and beautiful as the music it pursues to animate, and the tunes in the foreground are laidback and equable, like a slow stroll through the forest, absorbing all the sights and sounds of the complex but tranquil environment. There is only one track on the album \u2013 \u201cSun And Moon\u201d \u2013 that features drums and a somewhat galloping pace.<\/p>\n
With its abstracted, lavish adornments, WK\u2019s music is almost psychedelic. But the band is no way a blasphemous folk crossover. They just have fanciful musings that they cannot resist but express in their music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":30512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[8652],"rating":[5646],"class_list":["post-42178","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-wentworth-kersey","rating-rating-a"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/42178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/42178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=42178"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=42178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}