Album Of The Day: Home by Josh Garrels

Album Art of Josh Garrels's Home album - On a white background, there are four drawings set into light brown squares. The top left has a crude drawing of a structure's corners with of various sizes, a garden growing inside of it in just black pencil. The top right is a picture of a house of a white color with many small lines that are windows on the closest side, that is surrounded by tall, thin trees on three sides. The bottom left is a very similar-looking white house with a roof and many windows on two sides, but this one is for some reason floating in a drawing of a bathtub with the tap running. The bottom right is a large, white building with no visible windows that has a rooftop garden on one half of the roof, and a more traditional angled roof on the other half. Over this last white house is written the artist's name in black, hand-written small print and underneath that in much bigger print the album title.

Released on this day 10 years ago, this is the 7th album from independent folk/pop/rock artist Josh Garrels. I remember I was a bit disappointed when it first came out, as it was less epic and exciting as his preceding album, Love & War & The Sea In Between, still my favorite album of his. But after giving Home a few more good listens, I appreciate it much more for the shorter and more succinct masterpiece it is. The musicians create beautiful soundscapes and Garrels's treble vocals mostly float above the instruments. I think my favorite song is the rock-heavy "The Arrow", but all the songs are a great lyrical exploration of the place we live and family, on life shared with others. Another beautiful song is "Heaven's Knife", which doesn't sound like a love song to his wife by the title, but that what it is. It's a beautiful album that reminds us of the most important things to us: home.

Release Year: 2015
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