Review: Owen – Ghost Town
Singing of love and sorrow, Kinsella softly croaks his way through nine perfectly constructed tracks suited to be your warm blanket for a quiet and reflective evening alone. From start to finish, Ghost Town instills a feeling of melancholy inside the listener, from soft, swaying instrumentation to heart-felt and easily relatable lyrics. For anyone who’s ever had their heart broken or felt inadequate at any point in their life, Owen’s Ghost Town speaks directly to you.
Key Tracks:
Too Many Moons: A heartbreaking song with lyrics written in the style of a goodbye letter. Soothing strings and beautiful guitar work bring this song together, further accentuating the sadness in Kinsella’s heart and setting the tone for the rest of the album.
I Believe: “Hallelujah, I found Jesus” sings a chorus on this middle track, but rest-assured this is no religiously oriented track. Starting off as slow and quiet, the track’s instrumentation picks up towards the end in what can be considered a triumphant sadness.
Everyone’s Asleep in the House but Me: The “heaviest” and final track on the album. Lyrically, the song offers perfect closure to Ghost Town, ending on the consistent driving theme of melancholy, while adding a grit to the record through the use of a loud and screaming electric guitar.
- Michael Langiewicz
