Like many people in the world, singer-songwriter Michael Seyer has spent the past year and a half pre-occupied with both global issues and personal ones that, when placed side by side, feel mismatched.
LA-based Seyer sums this feeling up neatly on new song "Modern Loneliness" when he sighs, "I am so small but big / My head is hurting." Juggling worries both in and out of his control is the center of A Good Fool, Seyer's new album due September 24.
Lining up alongside "Modern Loneliness" are songs about growing up as an immigrant, while “Chemotherapy” taps into his father's ill health.
Seyer takes these weighty issues and manages to distill a lightness, gently strumming his acoustic guitar on "Modern Loneliness" until it sounds like it is.
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