Album Of The Day: Chrysaline by Josh Garrels

Album Art of Josh Garrels's Chrysaline album - With a thin white border around the edge, the black background has an illustration of plants, butterflies, and a pair of hands reaching up towards the flora and fauna. The image is nearly symmetrical, with a purple flower right in the center that has large pollen receptors coming out of the middle of the open flower. There are red flowers open on both sides of the purple one, with green, leafy branches along the edges of the illustration. Above the flowers on both the right and left are two butterflies, for a total of four. In the leaves and branches can be seen a caterpillar and chrysalis as well. In the middle towards the top is the artist's name in large, blue letters, and the album title in much smaller light gray.

Released six years ago this past Saturday, this is the ninth studio album from Josh Garrels, an independent folk-rock singer-songwriter. When it came out, I wasn't a huge fan. It's more mellow than his previous albums, I think, and I'm a bit of a rock fan. As usual, the lyrics have very spiritual content, and the instrumentation is beautiful. Much of Josh's vocals are a bit into his upper range, which works well. Over the years, the album has definitely grown on me, and despite the fact that he doesn't rock as much or break out into a spoken word verse like previous albums, it's still a solid listen.

Release Year: 2019
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