The Fallen Acrobat, by Jamie Barnes

The Fallen Acrobat

by Jamie Barnes

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1.	The Fallen Acrobat 03:05	buy track
2.	Wait For Her 03:38	buy track
3.	Games We Play on Road Trips 02:17	buy track
4.	For Centuries 03:25	buy track
5.	Anyway 02:12	buy track
6.	Burning Leaves 05:15	buy track
7.	Peaceful Protest 03:28	buy track
8.	Ambition Is Poisonous 03:37	buy track
9.	Unhappy 03:22	buy track
10.	Matthew 04:09	buy track
11.	A Ceiling Lit With Stars 03:02	buy track
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"The Fallen Acrobat is a beautiful album of bedroom folk songs, closer in style and spirit to Christian Kiefer than any artist on Silber's regular roaster. A very strong debut, it features Jamie Barnes multitracking vocals, acoustic guitar, toy piano, glockenspiel, flute, and field recordings in his bedroom. The instrumentation is charmingly naive, his lyrics generally meaningful and touching, and his melodies very catchy. Failed relationships provide the main topic for Barnes' lyrics, but he also touches more socially conscious subjects "Peaceful Protest," "Ambition is Poisonous" and dreamier ruminations "A Ceiling Lit with Stars." "Burning Leaves" stands out as the strongest song, beautifully arranged, moving, and filled with bits of surprising wisdom for a kid of that age. Other highlights include "Wait for Her" (a typical love triangle, but the harsher words are sung on such a delicate tone), a rendition of Rivulets' "Anyway..." (the closest to a pop song Barnes get on this set), and "Unhappy," where the singer admits "I don¹t know much about dating / or interior decorating," which might explain the main topic of the album after all. Barnes' voice is warm, understated but precise, soft-spoken, simply perfect for this particular kind of intimate folk songs. The Fallen Acrobat compensates for one hundred lousy bedroom albums you may have heard. And to think that it is only Barnes¹ first record fills the heart with hope."
~ François Couture, All Music Guide

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released April 26, 2018

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