One who is offering excuses for behavior they had to be told was wrong. One who is trying to voice answers they have yet to learn. The soft repetitions play like the confused murmurs of a confused kid. The Water Fountain is a song about growing up too fast written by someone who should still be growing up. Hope and a commitment to being present, to being dependable even in face of all the hardships forthcoming. Teenage pregnancy with the anticipation of motherhood, the inevitability of death ending currently flourishing relationships, surviving high school’s ups and downs and being made who you are by them. Like the worst of the written tragedies, this story weaves the dark and the light. Song titles in bold, song lyrics in italics. Only another writer, who with a bit more talent, would have been. This isn’t an album review so much as it is a reflection on each story told, song by song. Each song is a story of his life, narrated for you, that could very well be about you. This might be Alec Benjamin’s greatest talent: his ability to convey such relate-ability effortlessly. Here lies mellow beats and poignant lyrics inspiring nostalgia even with their first listen. Every time it becomes instinctual to cast away popular new music as merely super-catchy, fleeting entertainment, an artist emerges that reveals my knee jerk assumption as baseless and premature. Do you know how disorienting it is to stumble upon meaningful pop? In an era of repetitive mass appeal, it’s like sudden vertigo.
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