Taste Test: Traveller weeps over ‘The One’
The psych-folk poet tries to make sense of a past relationship with his new song.
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When you’ve been struck by Cupid’s arrow, perhaps feeling like there couldn’t possibly be any other, you might be blinded by your own confirmation bias. It’s like wearing a pair of rose-tinted glass everywhere you go; you’re simply unable to see the cracks in your lover’s visage. London’s psych-folk poet Traveller (real name Colin Tyler) gives himself a check-up with his blistered and broken new song, suitably titled “The One.” His attempts to make sense of the dying embers growing cold in his hands are vain efforts that only prolong the inevitable conclusion. “I’d thought I’d found the one,” he blinks back the tears, which slip through his lashes and cascade across his guitar. Feeling both indebted to the past and liberated by the present, a ’60s piano-pop tune fused through a prism of ’70s psychedelia and glistening indie-rock, Tyler’s observations quake with his personal misery while striking a hot iron of universal themes of loss and recovery.
Listen below:
https://soundcloud.com/travellersongs/the-one
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