"“There’s a river between us now, some state line boarders, some broken town,” with these lines on “Singing Sailors,” Sad Souls’ Precious Paragons demand the listeners’ a sprawled-on-the-bed listening time.
Having no online presence except from his Bandcamp page, Sad Souls float around, brewing under our noses without us even noticing it. His is acoustic, lo-fi folk music that strongly reminds of Kings of Convenience and strangely of earlier Peter Coyle especially in its songwriting. The above-mentioned together with “Needle of Death,” “Bull Men” are the three tracks having vocals in it while the rest four are instrumentals varying in its composition. The acoustic-driven tracks are filled with reverberating vocals and organic acoustic sounds, with words riding on rich melodies and Sad Souls’ relaxed voice that warp well in harmonies. Playful in “Bull Men,” you need the sharpest ear to lace it with a former track while “Hypnagogic Image” sounding like an underwater trance party does not fit with the bunch, it breaks the transcendence the opener provides distracting the listener from delving deeper into the record’s inner intention of reflective, resonant melodies and thoughts.
As a surprise, the record offers an acoustic, wordless rendition of famed Nico song ‘These Days,” perfect in execution but not enough to suffice the excitement it has fired up in its first few droned licks. Upon hearing the first notes, you are doomed to yearn for the words “I’ve been out walking,” but it doesn’t come. That is how Sad Souls work in this record, he gives out just enough to let the thoughts and the longing come in then you supply your personal self the searching." (Dénouements)
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