Nostalgic folk-fusion performer and songwriter Gwyn English Nielsen captures a smooth balance between the intimacy of acoustic music and the boldness of musical theatre, with the unplugged tones, conceptual scorn, and vocal prowess of You Give He Takes.
Built around a lightly finger-picked acoustic guitar and solo wind instrument, You Give He Takes follows the leading vocal of Gwyn English Nielsen – a tender to empowering delivery, rightfully gathering passion and momentum as the subject matter approaches its essential crescendo.
The song too adopts this same sense of evolution – the minimal layering intensified by the subtle switch to a strum and rhythmic hits that further the peak of the tension. The result is a delicate and inviting live musical listen, but one carefully intertwined with a more unforgiving look at the striking imbalances in love and relationships.
Directly exploring the implications of its title, You Give He Takes addresses our protagonist as the ever-forgiving light of said relationship. The organic instruments weave an enchanting and calming web all around this, as we slowly move towards the resolving and familiar sentiment, that ‘sooner or later, your heart will break’.
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