This here, gentle readers and amicable visitors, is why I listen to new music in the first place. For moments, like this one, where I start up a song I’ve never heard before, give it a single listen, and it instantaneously strikes every chord with sharpshooter precision. It’s gems like The Lord Dog Bird’s The Gift Of Song In The Lion’s Den which remind me just how wonderful and stunning music can be.

Wilderness guitarist Colin McCann put together The Gift Of Song In The Lion’s Den in his own home on four track cassette, which accounts for its heavily analogue, forthright, folk-inspired simplicity. However, the song makes no qualms about its unpolished aura: the guitars start off with a purposeful awkwardness amidst the low buzz of the surrounding equipment, in somewhat of a muted, out of focus membrane, painfully melodious, as if carrying a charge it craves to release. Thankfully, the thud of a bass drum and the crispy jaunt of a tambourine emerge to back it up, as if propping the melody up to ensure it be heard, accompanied by McCann’s elevating, vivid, fervent, Peter Gabriel-esque vocals, wide and welcoming, with a profound earnestness that drips of vulnerability, yet robust enough to feel strong. Or at least, stronger. The result is a song full of hope, determined to cast the weight off itself and pursue a life unburdened.

I swear, we weren’t expecting this one.

MP3: The Lord Dog Bird - The Gift Of Song In The Lion's Den

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