Fruition – How to Make Mistakes
Fruition has a new album of songs from a lonely heart, How to Make Mistakes. Thirteen songs written by three band members in roughly equal numbers, these are either songs to sit in your hammock and weep by, or songs to chill out by the campfire with friends under the dark night sky and twinkling stars. And all of them are Americana goodness.
“Lonely Work” is an excellent song – sad and beautiful: “Take a walk inside the heart, see how long before you’re wandering in the dark. Some broken things may never mend, they have to end.” And then there is whistling. I’m hooked already. Beautiful, achingly beautiful. And sad, achingly sad. And lonely.
But next up is a song called “Scars” and you’re moved again. There is “the smoke goes curling through the darkness of night,” and “I turned around and nobody’s there,” and “time flies faster and it stings like a bastard.” Easy tempo, piano, guitars, and slow sorrowful harmonies.
“Saturday Night” is stripped down from the already easy arrangements, and this one is a chill slow dance “down on the street they’re meetin’ their lovers… I hope that they’re being good to each other, like me and my baby on a Saturday night.” “Get Lost” is Mimi Naja singing lead powerfully, and this one probes coming home from that dead end job and the endless devices and plotting escape. “I’m tired of people and concrete … I need a body of water and tall trees, only Mother Nature is gonna bring me to my knees, I’m gonna get lost, don’t come for me.” And Mimi really soars on this.
Turning the corner “Can You Tell Me” displays gritty harmonies in an old timey number. “Never Change” leads with harmonica and shuffle beats, and adds sweet plucks of mandolin: “summer days are sweetest, when the sky’s an endless blue … the nighttime is still the right time, love is still a mystery, peace is ever fleeting, war is still just misery… and the best show of all time will always be a campfire’s flame … some things never change.”
This album starts out with sweet sorrow and as it goes along, it’s sprinkled with lighter doses of fun and harmonies. This band has strengths on multiple levels – three lead singers (one of them a woman), three strong songwriters, and whole lot of instinctive talent.
Find more info and details here: https://linktr.ee/fruition
How to Make Mistakes was produced by Fruition; engineered by Tyler Thompson, James Tuttle, and Jay Elliott; mixed by Tyler Thompson and mastered by Anna Frick.
Musicians on the album are Jay Cobb Anderson on lead and harmony vocals, electric guitar, slide guitar, resonator guitar and pedal steel; Kellen Asebroek on lead vocals, harmony vocals, piano, organ and acoustic guitar; Jeff Leonard on bass; Mimi Naja on harmony vocals, mandolin acoustic guitar, and piano; Tyler Thompson on drums.
Enjoy our previous coverage here: Video: Little Orange Room Sessions: Fruition
