SANDERS-BOHLKE-M-Review-No26SANDERS BOHLKE

Ghost Boy

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No amount of sonic ambiance—not amplifier hiccups, feedback blasts, cello hums or eerily childlike piano tinkling—can distract from the sentiments driving Sanders Bohlke’s music. On his first album in seven years, this 21st century Southern folkie threads together songs of love and Armageddon, promising, “I’ll rip your heart out like you want me to” on one track, then observing, “The devil is laughing at the darkness falling” the next. The aforementioned background sounds give this disc its color, but they’d mean little were it not for Bohlke’s songwriting. To wit, “Lights Explode,” the kind of stately weeper Roy Orbison might write were he a laptop-toting product of these times.

 

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