Alexander Stanton’s first townsppl album since 2017 is Beyond The Garden Wall.
The balmy compositions and rich arrangements found on Beyond The Garden Wall suggest a bustling community in which the songs’ narrators grow up, fall in love, live, and die. Not a concept album exactly, but a work, like The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society, that takes place in a specific mental landscape. “Man of the Future” follows crisp bass, effervescent piano, and jaunty percussion on a stroll down memory lane, recalling a mother’s advice to her child: “Son, when it’s love you will / Know, know, know where to find all / The courage for the moment of your life.” Theatrical synths and sunny violin accents accentuate the song’s nostalgic, daydreamy atmosphere, recalling those younger days when every Friday evening felt like the start of a life-changing adventure.
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