Taste Test: Dante Mazzetti is ‘Breaking in the Sun’
The indie-folk singer-songwriter chronicles a story of an ex-convict returning to a life that’s no longer his.
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Folk music has a way of delving into the darkest and most tortured of humanities. A vehicle of great, perhaps earth-shattering, storytelling, simple acoustic guitars play in plaintive rays in the background, and the vocal line is often drawn in intimate, inward-gazing shapes. Such is the case with New York singer-songwriter Dante Mazzetti‘s “Breaking in the Sun,” a terribly lonesome and crippling piece of music that explores a newly-released ex-convict and his place in the world. “How’s our little one / How’s our precious son / Does he call your man daddy / Does he see him as the one,” he wrestles with seeing his life as something forlorn and foreign, his entire outside existence upended by time’s cruel. Mazzetti’s amber husk floats across the melancholy-laced melody, clobbering yet delicate. “I am too small for you now…” waxes red on his heartbroken lips.
“Breaking in the Sun” is lifted from Mazzetti’s new EP, Hotel, Vol. 2, out everywhere now.
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