Matthew Himes - "Hemlock & Bergamot" LP

(Ramble Records) <a href="https://home-and-garden.bandcamp.com/album/hemlock-bergamot">Hemlock & Bergamot by Matthew Himes</a>   This is Matthew Himes' first full length album to be released under his own name, and it's a welcome return to songwriting after a period without. 'Hemlock & Bergamot' offers a dusty allegory, both lullaby and lament. A gesture to remind of both the knots tightly tied and loose ends unravelled. Seven songs of dreams and reality, rooted in the spaces between. A story told of both past reflection and forward projection, tales of trauma framed as spectral encounter, and the road to recovery through love and light. "Really sublime experimental loner folk from this mysterious Minnesotan, who writes intimate and melancholic tunes, that are nearly tone poems. Some c