With Some Kind of Comfort, Jay Nash recalls a Los Angeles thought to be long since extinct, a romantic dream land where inspiration flowed from one artist to another with songs about late nights, friends and lovers, songs which grew organically and were created spontaneously. He's a throwback for sure, smart with a hook, and brave enough to bare the fragile truth in a song.
His debut for KUFALA Recordings, Some Kind of Comfort, is a document of Nash's rising star, as well as a personal diary. It's an album rooted in the classics-Cat Stevens, the Dead, Dylan-but breezy and airy enough to swoon fans of acoustic pop from coast to cast. Mixed entirely to analog tape, the album exudes a warmth rarely found in many of today's recordings. As Some Kind of Comfort chronicles the lives of conflicted lovers, it wears the influence of the past few years in which Nash's world has gotten increasingly hectic and, at times, complicated.
"One of the strongest voices in the Los Angeles singer songwriter scene," Nash has "Loose, gorgeous melodies and songs full of confidence but without swagger", says Jeff Miller of the Los Angeles Times.
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