Blog: Hyperbolium

Inviting, open-ended album of loss, loneliness and meandering hope Freedy Johnston opens his new album, his first new material since 2001's Right Between the Promises , with a ukulele strum and a lyric that searches optimistically for answers. The quality of his voice against the stripped-down arrangement highlights the arresting, bell-like clarity of his tone, and the lyric playfully strides between a literal ode to a found coin and a metaphorical hand outstretched to a lost girl. Producer Richard McLaurin leavens the ukulele's chipper tone with more quizzical and [...]

• Freedy Johnston - Don't Fall In Love With A Lonely Girl