Taste Test: Adam Winn finds himself ‘Drowning Slow’
Canadian folk singer-songwriter highlights a toxic relationship with a cut from his new album.
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You can only wade water for so long before you’re completely shut off from any and all life preservers. Hope vanishes from your mind, and you suffocate, the murky darkness below swallowing you whole. That’s how it feels, generally, to be trapped in a toxic relationship, and no matter the passion you once felt long ago, it’ll never come back. Canada folk-smith Adam Winn handles his own circumstances with a savage beauty, painting his poetry with the wicked truth. “Drowning Slow” makes the obvious comparisons to bodies floating on water, lungs filling up with mud, and Winn’s truth oozes upon paper. “From the minute I found you, I knew that you were gone / And I thought I could save you / But I guess I did you wrong,” he sings. His heart troubled and weary, he manages to push through such pain revisitations with gusto before hanging his head in resignation.
“Drowning Slow” is lifted from Winn’s brand new album, Roots, out everywhere now.
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