Despite a storied career as a musician, Jon Paz Gale releases his first song ‘About Death’ a fair ways into his journey. The twisted acoustic rock ballad from the Albuquerque based singer song writer is a dark folk tune that combines heavy and ominous lyricism that tackles mortality and more in a morose and melancholic fashion that still leaves plenty of room for a pained and agonizing empathy. There’s an underlying relief to it all though, a sense of catharsis that prevails powerfully as the song progresses towards its closing moments. It’s minimally arranged, not relying on too much at any given moment. Simply backing itself off a powerful acoustic section and an occasional entrance of the keys, it’s really all anchored in the ever so compelling performance by Jon Paz Gale on the vocals.
A remarkable statement of a track that shows the world who Jon Paz gale is in gripping fashion, About Death is a folk tune that doesn’t spare its emotional weight for a moment. Find yourself hopelessly enamoured to his touching storytelling.