Taste Test: Shlomo Franklin’s heart tossed from a ‘Slingshot’
The folk singer-songwriter climbs atop a mountain of pain with his new single.
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Unstrung like a spool of yarn, some relationships are doomed from the start. Sour roots tangle and strangle, but you may not know the exact weight of consequence until the very last second. Well, that’s certainly the case for dark-folk singer-songwriter Shlomo Franklin, a Bethel, New York native, who trades his bleeding heart for a measured introspection of anguish. On new single “Slingshot,” a cool anger tempers and quivers his vocal cords, as they playing his emotions as harpist on golden strings that quake boundlessly on a forever loop. “You said you loved me to the moon,” he casts the past down upon the bedspread for the metaphorical polaroids to gain complete exposure, perhaps for the final time. “Well, I guess the moon ain’t so far away…” Years beyond his age, Franklin’s voice trudges through the weariness of a broken world, tinted with devastated souls just looking for solace.
“Slingshot” is the lead single to Franklin’s upcoming debut album, out May 2. He is set to play NYC’s Rockwood Music Hall, Stage 2 on May 1.
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