Jom Comyn - Crawl (2019)

Jom Comyn's music conjures the sensation of weathering a storm.
For almost a decade, his albums have passed through sounds like
shifting seasons (most often folk and rock or some
combination), with Comyn's charcoal-lined baritone acting as a
meditative shelter from the inclement elements, external and
inner, at work.

I Need Love, in 2017, found him exploring myriad genres across
28 tracks, while Crawl finds Comyn working with a more focused
palette: its 12 songs don't stray far from an amped-up
guitar-folk arrangement. But that simpler array of sounds gets
mined for rich, refractive depths here. "Street Sweeper"
switches from reflective to commanding as it layers
instrumentation around increasingly rapid lyrics, while "Chapel
of Chimes" builds its title-evoking soundscape around a
hypnotic guitar pattern. "Change Your Mind" offers upbeat, Black
Keys-ish crunch-rock that powers along at a steady clip before
erupting into a rush of guitar in its final moments.

In its shimmering sonics and introspective ruminations, Crawl is
an album that invites and rewards close listening: full of
mesmerizing facets that reveal themselves with sustained
frequency.