Nelson Kempf shares title track from debut album ‘Family Dollar’, out 24 July
NELSON KEMPF SHARES TITLE TRACK FROM DEBUT ALBUM FAMILY DOLLAR, OUT 24 JULY
“[Kempf] has forged something truly his own”
The Sunday Times ‘Breaking Act’
“Strikingly affecting”
Clash
“A swirl of inventive melodicism that marks a very exciting debut single”
Secret Meeting
Listen to ‘Family Dollar’ on Bandcamp here:
https://nelsonkempf.bandcamp.com/track/family-dollar
Listen to ‘Family Dollar’ on Spotify here:
https://open.spotify.com/album/4OchGWnB0cfriKz5oHSz7J
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Nelson Kempf today shares the title track from his debut album ‘Family Dollar’, out 24 July. The track is about something many have likely faced at one time or another: money troubles. What starts as tranquil marimba begins to rumble and build; the deafening, all consuming noise that the weight of money troubles brings slowly taking over while the vitality and beauty of life continues to shine through. All the while Kempf’s vivid, intimate lyricism is more powerful than ever.
Speaking of the track Kempf says:
“This song is a moment to moment meditation in an attempt to stay mentally and physically afloat under the crushing weight of credit delinquency, pre-foreclosure, etc.”
Before leaving Nashville once and for all, Kempf was split between the humid haze of Tennessee with his family and leaving them behind for the harsh perpetual winter of the Alaskan tundra where he worked as a welder. As a result, Family Dollar is a record with a strong sense of place and a unique and deeply personal perspective. The record is tightrope walk of darkness and light, warmth and isolation, hardship and the rewards it brings.
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Written through illness, death, mental breakdowns, parenthood and financial turmoil thematically Family Dollar may initially sound like a dark record at times. But in it’s warmth it’s clear that what Kempf found when attempting to translate these feelings was something else. That there is also beauty in darkness – the shimmering evening light, the buzzing grit and gristle of life and the irrational ecstasy when a moment of calm pierces through.
“I’m parked up at the Family Dollar
cold callers in the crushing heat
the kettle spits and panics like a fighting dog
I fill a cup with coffee and step out to walk
violet, flesh and fur are strung out on the street
laundry on the line swinging in the breeze
fresh flowers woven in the hats of a line of Sunday ladies”
Listen to the previously shared ‘Hourglass’ here:
https://nelsonkempf.bandcamp.com/track/hourglass-2
Listen to the previously shared ‘Sweetness & Strife’ here:
https://nelsonkempf.bandcamp.com/track/sweetness-strife
High-res images are here.
Pre-order Family Dollar here:
https://nelsonkempf.bandcamp.com/
Photo credit: Keeley Boyle