Jeremy Ferrara

There is an innate tenderness about Jeremy Ferrara. His good nature is inescapable, and anyone within earshot of his quavering voice and quiet guitar is likely to swoon in sympathetic reaction. He’s a folksinger, and a song-diviner. On Ferrara’s last effort, his deft fretwork and comforting chord choices often found the way to front and center of the sound. Recorded with Mike Coykendall, and released on cassette tape, the album perfectly captured the folk-essence Ferrara exudes. The precision with which he plays every single note becomes mesmerizing. His gentle voice lulls you into a liminal listening space, where his etudes do the work of examining life for you. On his new album Darkness Is A Bright Sound (produced by Luke Temple and out March 2024 on American Standard Time Records and A For Effort Records), we get the full band effort weve been craving from Ferrara. The resulting album benefits from Temples near imperceptible, complimentary bass and synth, and blows in like the breeze. The disarming title track opens the album to find Ferrara at work, tenderly demonstrating that nothing is truly defined, and if we -or the world- are ever able to be defined, it will be by many sides, many things, not one. With our focus shifted, our balance found, its easy to follow Ferrara into Darkness Is A Bright Sound.