Blog: PopMatters

Confident and well-crafted freak-folk, if such a thing exists. Ottawa-based singer-songwriter Kirk Ramsay lets his freak flag fly with pride and a deft sense of character on Coming Home, Giant Hand's debut full-length. Many songwriters holding down the fort in the freak-folk genre make obvious-and-unnecessary attempts to break their songs apart into unlistenable fractures, all in the name of preserving art, yet Ramsay's approach is remarkable. Ramsay has crafted a confident, mature listen for such a young artist. It's one where the spooky turns...