Kyle Davis comes crashing in with a passionate opus on his new release, "Jericho. " A brilliant nine-song effort running at just shy of 37 minutes, "Jericho" might be Davis’s most personal and emotionally potent release yet, a message to the courage it requires to force oneself to get back up after heartbreak, loss, and life’s more silent storms.
From its first note, "Jericho" throbs with the raw candor and soul-baring sense of storytelling that helped create Davis’s position in the singer-songwriter canon. But now there’s a deeper ache, a wiser reflection, and it’s impossible not to feel it.
The centerpiece single “On a Ledge” captures that internal precipice between breakdown and breakthrough. With Davis’s voice lightly drifting above scattershot instrumentation, the track unpacks vulnerability with poetic finesse. It’s the sort of song that makes you pause mid-thought, mid-breath, because it dips into something we’ve all encountered but could never quite articulate.
Tearing also affects us, as is “Sail Away,” a song about sailing open space after a long storm. Rooted in Davis’s warm, autumnal vocal tone and restrained production touches, it serves as a hushed exhale, an encouragement to relinquish control and go with the winds of change. Both tracks alone are worth the trip, but together they bookend an album that plays as if it’s been written out like a diary to music.
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