Following his early 2024 excursion to ‘Pebble Beach’ and the summer track ‘Devotion’, autumn sees John O’Callaghan aim to raise those floor pressures once again. This outing finds co-producer, lyricist and fellow Irelander Paul Skelton travel the Tullamore trail over to John’s native Navan for the track ‘May The Road Rise’.
The track further teams the pair with Ren Faye, who was last heard lending voice to Amos & Riot Night’s ‘Different View’ in the spring. Through her Celtic-ally-toned delivery, subtle Gaelic inflections and Paul’s moving ode, the Eireann characteristic is accented.
John and Paul aren’t exactly skimping on the contrastingly uplifting elements. Cantering drums, winnowing sub-melodies, and Ren’s harmonies dot its opening minutes. Slowly drawn fiddles transition into grander orchestral ones, and then further still into celestially plucked filaments.
As its feels continue to swell, the pianoforte chimes and the synths ascend, to deliver a possible end-of-the-night moment.
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