Description
Having honed his skills leading the Los Angeles-based pop/alt rockers The Northstar Session, singer/songwriter/guitarist Matthew Szlachetka hit the ground running with Waits For A Storm To Find, his debut solo album. It’s a collection of 12 deeply felt songs, full of soulful melodies and rootsy arrangements that evoke the folk, blues and rock ’n’ roll influences that inspired Szlachetka, while pushing past them to establish a sound all his own. The album is Szlachetka’s most personal statement, with lyrical vignettes drawn from relationships, tough decisions and learning, sometimes the hard way, when to move on. He muses about unfilled potential on the title track, which frames Szlachetka’s tousled voice with simple piano and elegant horns. Elsewhere, he mourns falling out of touch with an old friend on the understated folk-pop tune “Come Home for December,” sings like he’s trying to convince himself over raucous guitar and a sturdy rhythm on “I Keep Telling Myself It’s Fine” and dials in a wistful tone on the soaring “Wasting Time.”
