Daniel Talton - Hunt

$5.00 - $10.00

Daniel Talton - Hunt

$5.00 - $10.00

Daniel Talton’s third self-produced full length finds the songwriter’s focus sharpening on traditional song forms reinforced by atmospheric excursions. Texture swells forward and lingers where Appalachian structures dissolve—genuine supplication hides in a spiritual haze.

To arrive at Hunt, Talton abandoned years worth of meticulously arranged material in favor of this more immediate reduction. Hunt reflects the clarity of an artist who has discovered a new intimacy with word and sound—born out of old time folk tradition but just as often furthering the acoustic acid of Pelt’s spacious impulses, or the deliberate enunciations of Will Oldham. This synthesis is never so clear as on the side-spanning, cassette-exclusive version of “Spiral Stair.”

Says Talton: “Hunt is about running from the end of the world. Mostly I stay closed off to it because it hurts too much. But sometimes it catches me by surprise. It feels like the bottom drops out from under me, like I’m a mote of dust floating in an open void. On my previous record, there’s a character who spends too long inside that void. They accept the end of the world. One day while walking the burn-scarred Southern California chaparral, this king of the ash heap crosses paths with a small traveler and demands to know: who are you, scraping in my dirt like a worm?

I think Hunt is the answer to that question. It’s the self-account of someone who cannot run from the end of the world and so walks through it. While working on Hunt I learned that plants in the chaparral expect fire. They grow back green and refreshed from their strong roots. The chaparral is never so beautiful as after a good fire.”

All songs by Daniel Talton except Pretty Saro (traditional)

Mixed by Kyle Houpt
Mastered by Mike Bridavsky
Photography by Sara Sabzi

featuring:
Tom Asselin - guitar
Jack Beal - contrabass
Peter Doyle - pedal steel
Kyle Houpt - guitar
Sara Sabzi - vocals
Alex Kent - mallets