Jesse Marchant, used to be better known by his stage name JBM, this Canadian singer-songwriter.
JBM’s music has been desribed as instilling a “unique depth of emotion and feeling.” American Songwriter magazine wrote that there was a “level of peace and of stillness unique to a church” in Marchant’s debut album and that his music “feels like one man’s soft, musical prayer for hope in a world that too often has too little,” and she compared his style to Thom Yorke and Neil Young. JBM’s song “Ambitions & War” was described as a “honey-of-a-song” in Future Sounds magazine, with lyrics about a person who is losing their mind in Los Angeles.
His songs are “mostly acoustic venture” with atmospheric arrangements, lyrical purity and unaffected baritone.” with heartfelt compositions reflecting “a meticulous and carefully crafted sound.
Somber, melancholy, moody, dark, sad. Pick a descriptor and it easily fits on Jesse Marchant‘s new album, Illusion of Love. Even the album’s title, which suggests love is merely an illusion gives you the idea that rainbows never appear after the storms in these songs. Marchant has always been adept at tugging audiences’ heartstrings going back as far as when we knew him just as JBM.
Though it is his fourth album, Jesse Marchant’s Illusion of Love may end up being a dazzling introduction to his work for many new listeners. This is first and foremost because after you’ve heard it, you simply cannot forget it. But it’s also because there’s something emergent about this record, like Marchant is coming out of his shell for the first time. And while you’ll hear remnants of Jim James in Marchant’s hauntingly beautiful vocals,
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