Jeff Thomas Archive

There’s so much to love about this album, especially if you enjoy authenticity and human connection in your music.  After listening to Evaporate, I feel like I KNOW Jeff, and I feel blessed that he decided to be vulnerable and open up to me.  This is a very human album.  With a few exceptions, the album feels acoustic and unplugged, even when it's full electric, orchestrated, and band-heavy, because the emotion feels raw and unplugged.  The real star of the whole album is Jeff’s voice, harmonies, and his words, they shine and radiate throughout with metaphors and confessions about  hardship, growing up, diversity, moving on & maturing.  The instrumentation, sometimes completely stripped back to just a single guitar, and sometimes full, lush and orchestral, is deftly used to add weight and nuance to the stories being told.

SOUNDS LIKE: The part of me that loves Bon Iver and Elliot Smith rejoiced at this album

FAVORITE TRACK: Drakes Creek Park

THREE FAVORITE MOMENTS:

• When all the harmonies and drums drop into “Beatyville Ky”.  It’s emotionally gratifying.  

• 2:30 on “Trading Places” with the single descending guitar and violin + vocal harmonies all leading up to a crescendo, just masterfully done.  

• Last chorus of “Drakes Creek Park”, when you realize you've already memorized the melody and the lyrics and you are singing along to such a perfectly crafted song