Postcard Boy sends a love letter to fans at intimate album release show
Up-and-coming singer-songwriter Garrett Seamans recetly released his debut LP Somewhere On A Hillside under the moniker Postcard Boy, unveiled to the world with an intimate performance at a secluded gallery space in Los Angeles. Postcard Boy is a frontrunner in a new breed of indie artists, blending EDM influenced vocals that tremble with emotion with intricate instrumentation that emulates the sensation of soaring and gliding among a billowing cloudscape backed with the most brilliant blue sky.
Hopefully and heartbreaking, Postcard Boy's earnest anthems are the voice of a generation exhausted by the unrelenting onslaught of events beyond their control, and represent an acceptance of things they cannot change. By reframing the narrative, Somewhere On A Hillside becomes a celebration of the renewed value placed on the tangible connections between friends, family, and lovers.
Densely layered compositions reimagine the traditional indie formula much in the same way that artists like Toro Y Moi and Tycho did nearly two decades ago, building yet again on innovative rearrangements of indie, rock, and electronic music into something steeped in tradition but inherently progressive. Delivered in short, punky blasts that feels like a celebratory exclamation rather than the typically longer and more drawn out song structures of artists that inhabit a similar space.
As a writer Postcard Boy's lyricism owes a debt to the unvarnished rawness of emo, tapping into the deepest recesses of the self to dredge forth emotions without a hint of hesitance or restraint. This commitment to so unreservedly wearing his heart in his sleeve has attracted a diverse fan base of like-minded young people caught in the similar throes of growing up in an uncertain and ever changing cultural landscape. By giving a voice to fears and hopes and dreams both universal and deeply personal and placing them on display, peers from all walks of life can easily relate and find something to connect to within the words while dancing cares away with friends old and new, uninhibited by the expectations of society.
Somewhere On A Hillside is available now. Stream the album here and follow Postcard Boy on Instagram.