Album Review: Jesse Shows Life Can Be Like A “Hard Sky” To Fly
Whenever you are out in the sun, for awhile, there is a warm dizziness that takes over you. For some reason, you feel rested and tired, all at once. In some ways, love can be exactly like this strange, sunny effect. Jesse debuts Hard Sky as whirlingly sweet look into how love can bake us like the sun.
It is the hazing effect of Hard Sky that makes it both sonically intriguing and different to what listeners are accustomed to. While lovestruck is not new music theme, Jesse, actually, sounds struck. His guitar melodies stagger like a man lost in a desert of love, while his drums and vocals plays as the heating sky; making you both desperate and dreamy to drink up love’s water. “Games of Chance”, “De-Pression”, “and Cinco’s Lament” delve right into the desire to get to the “happy part” of your life and relationships. Nothing in this world comes without work, but, for many of us, it is a hard endeavor. Life throws a series of situations and emotional butterfly effects that flutter through in Hard Sky’s instrumentals. Hence, the dizzying vocals of Jesse X who works through the muddles of his thoughts and mind with a psychedelic sweetness. If someone told me he was Kevin Parker’s vocal twin, I would believe it. Both use higher, swindling notes to sing tracks as if they were caught in pendulums such as in, “Hotel Rising” and “When I Call Your Name”. Thematically, Jesse seems wrapped by time, and his inability to accept it is not a force or idea you can grasp but a moment you grab. That dichotomy makes his drawl in certain tracks, “Luck” as if he is weighed by reality or straightly tone his higher-voice as if he is swimming in sentiment, “Wild Sun”. Either way, anyone can understand his gripe with time.
Time always confuses me. There are days when I look at the clock, and think “Its night-time already!” or I see my alarm and yelp, “It is morning already!”. That same reaction can go into how long you have spent trying to make a dream come true, a relationship last, and an insecurity heal. In essence, Hard Sky is about feeling like you have Heaven in your hand, but have no idea how to hold it. You either crush it to tightly or you touch it too flimsily, but either way, like life, you feel you have something special but you do not how to treat it. To Buy Jesse’s debut Hard Sky On June 23 Click Here.
