New music from one of indie’s hardest working and most interesting, modest but effective songwriters. Kyle Jaymes starts up a brand new year, with melodic warmth and gritty lyrical scorn to carefully counter that.
Selfish sees the established indie artist blend his mellow, peaceful vocals with those of singer and songwriter Sinead Angele, and the result presents an array of lush harmonies, and a rising emotional power that’s hypnotic.
Superb lyrics have always been the backbone of what lets Kyle Jaymes’ music stand out, every since the weight and wonder of the phenomenal single After The Bomb – see also Haunting, Throw Hands. His vocal humility is refreshing and genuine, and the music consistently follows the needs of the story – not simply adhering to a single genre, and in this case, establishing a kind of acoustic indie pop energy, which again compliments the emotional complexity of the song perfectly well.
Ultimately feeling like a huge power-pop ballad at its peak, the essence of Selfish is again that twist of angst and unexpectedness that runs throughout Kyle Jaymes’ songwriting. The music is beautiful, but the sentiments are loaded with pain and self-preservation; an outcry against someone whose Selfish choices have been unignorably suffered for far too long.
Find all things Kyle Jaymes Music. Stream the music on Spotify – you won’t find a bad song, and that’s a promise.
