FOR FANS OF: Jeff Buckley, Bob Dylan, Briston Maroney
George O'Hanlon, a 21 year old singer/songwriter, released his debut single, "The Storm" on Harvest Records earlier this month. It's a melodic, slow rising indie rock song, one that leads to a powerful crescendo. It's a beautiful track, George's voice is gentle and sweet, the instrumentals complement his vocals amazingly, and his passion comes across as clear as water.
About the track, George said "It’s quite an angry song, I wrote it during a period when there was conflict going on around me that really fed into the music." He's right - the lyrics read as telling the story of the end of a relationship, an intense fight that is spilling all over everything around them like a broken dam, people throwing angry words at the narrator like stones. But regardless of the anger thrown at him - he remains steady and strong.
Overall, "The Storm" is a beautiful, cinematic track. It paints a picture in your mind, one of broken love, but also of humid, blurry city lights, and the smell of rainy summer nights, right in the middle of the season where everything is happening and it's suffocating. Those times when you simply can't bear the weight of everything, when all you want is everything to be quiet, and yourself to be held. "The Storm" is the small moments leading up to the literal and metaphorical downpour of everything good and bad, the moments before a rainstorm, as the title says. It is - much like it is sonically - a slow rise to a climax, and soft, bittersweet but necessary end. It is everything you could need in a song and more.
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