(Alternative Folk, Contemporary Folk, Singer-Songwriter) Faint Peter - Redoubt - 2016, MP3, 320 kbps

#777Faint Peter is the indie-folk offering of Boston-born and Seattle-based singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Joseph De Natale. Anchored by steady, finger-picked guitar and graceful instrumentation, De Natale’s plaintive voice soars amidst lush, cathedral-sized reverbs in his debut release, Redoubt.
All songs written and performed by Joseph De Natale
Additional instrumentation by Philip Kobernik (piano, keyboard, Rhodes), Tyler George-Minetti (lap steel, acoustic guitar), David Brabham (drums), Jason Chambliss (trumpet) and Erika Cunningham (violin)

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Featuring nine tracks created over a period of two years in various basements and living rooms around Seattle, the release marks the debut of Boston-born, Seattle-newbie Joseph Peter DeNatale. And it’s an impressive start. His sparse tracks rise and fall into lush sweeping arrangements that create an ample scope of emotional push and pull. The quiet folk of “The Cure” takes on a shimmering rise and fall reminiscent of The Swell Season, and then breaks out in a foot-tapping beat, only to crest in a tinkling instrumental.
The vengeful storytelling of “What You Took” sees DeNatale tear through a past relationship with raw, stretching vocals and you can see him pleading solo on a quiet stage. From there he travels to “Texas” in search of a girl to rebuild with, and the slightly twangy, almost Mariachi guitars add a surprising flair to the track, accompanied by the repeated refrain, “Maybe she will save my life.”
So where to go after Mexico? Why, Canada of course. The quiet closer to Redoubt, “Ontario” is a steady, graceful folk song with a near-whispered vocal track that wraps back around to the same soaring harmonies that we started with. It’s an impressively well-built album that balances influence and originality, its unpredictable nature and straightforward delivery making it hard to turn off.