Slow Leaves
Meantime
Album by Canadian songwriter Grant Davidson aka Slow Leaves, is about waiting for something significant in life and how all the mundane things that happen while waiting make up what is actually significant. If you blink, you miss it; if you think too much, you miss it. If you're lucky, there's love and death and not much else in the meantime. The album is infused with an elegant earthiness, Meantime is a collection of folk songs adorned with paisley 1960s and 70s tones. While the music has a retro sensibility, this is balanced by an immediacy in the lyrics that anchors him firmly in the present day. Slow Leaves is a self-contained solo project where Davidson curates every aspect of the music and its presentation, including being a multi-instrumentalist, producer, cover designer, photographer and videographer. He sees the totality of these different aspects as essential parts of a larger project of self-knowledge through artistic methods. His folk and psych-rock style is reminiscent of older songwriters like Mickey Newbury, Nick Drake, Roky Erickson, Gene Clark and Neil Young. But they also live in the world of modern classics like Andy Shauf, Bonny "Prince" Billy, Bedouine, Big Thief and Bill Callahan. His silky voice has already been compared to Roy Orbison or Bryan Ferry