Taste Test: Alexander Carson haunted by ‘Ghosts’
The folk singer-songwriter explores the inevitability of death and falling in love with a new song.
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We’re born. We live. We love. We die. It’s a cycle of life on which we are constantly looping. The inevitable becomes the very thing we cherish most in life, constantly at odds with really living and anticipating what comes after. Formerly of Wooden Arms, London’s folk singer-songwriting Alexander Carson pulls at the tendons lining his own bones as he come to terms with death’s overpowering waves. “Ghosts,” a porcelain ballad always on the edge of falling and shattering on the ground, ebbs and flows as the splendidly tragic backdrop to a visual that hollows out the very meaning of human existence. “One day, I’ll grow older / And bigger than these bones / One day, I’ll grow cold,” sings Carson, whose voice floats as a tormented spirit across the ivories. The melancholy is the sole driver of a song about falling in love and with the world prancing in vibrant shades around you. Carson feels the weight of such responsibility, but even through starkly grim piano, he finds the silver lining.
“Ghosts” is lifted from his upcoming solo debut album, Ellipsism, out April 12
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