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Jordon Holtz
Not Close For Comfort
released February 3, 2023
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Not Close For Comfort is the debut solo EP from Seacoast NH bassist and singer-songwriter Jordan Holtz (Rick Rude, Footings, Sponge Head). The album was written and recorded over the last five years between a barn in the woods of New Hampshire and an island off the coast of Maine.
Its songs are built from the bottom up, with spare electric bass accompaniment building up to richly layered tapestries of immersive sound, featuring contributions by Ryan Harrison (Rick Rude, Black Norse), Ty Ueda (Mount Misery), and Peter McLaughlin (Dead Gowns, Little Wings). Contemplative vocals and unhurried tempos help deliver messages of loss, love, and the inner workings of an overthought brain.
The EP’s title would suggest a want for disconnection, but its lyrics speak to another reading. It’s an explanation of absence and a want for connection, even if through great struggle and discomfort. It’s an open invitation to vulnerability, to share in what ails us, and perhaps to find peace once we arrive there together.
Pretty Purgatory. Record Label.
Portland, Maine, USA.
2014: Auspicious beginnings.
Ripe with collective spirit.
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