Taste Test: Steven Bowers imagines ‘Future Ghosts’
The indie-folk musician imagines a future of ghost selves with his new song.
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We are ghosts of our own lives. Our present self is scavenging what our former self left behind, a countryside littered with choices, doubts, fears and hopes. As we stand right here in the now, our future self is gliding through our very steps as we know them to be. That bizarrely psychological notion is brought into clearer, more piercing focus with Vancouver Island’s indie-folk singer-songwriter Steven Bowers and his astounding performance. On “Future Ghosts,” featuring harmony work from Jaya and woven on an acoustic guitar and pummeling percussion, Bowers stages his world as a spectral-spooked landscape, an imaginarium of what could be, all the misery included. “I’m tumbling down / Down in the dark,” he sweeps those dreams under the rug. Instead, he takes up the present as a torch to be cherished beyond all else. It’s a truly magnificent morsel of thought.
“Future Ghosts” is the latest primer of his upcoming album, Elk Island Park, out later this year.
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