Daniel G. Harmann’s songs drift and ache, sad but uplifting. I’d say they’re brave, but they’re more subdued than that. Feels like fall.

His latest release, Anthems from the Gentle War, came out September 4th and was recorded at Recovery Room Studio in Greenwood. If the Cure were from the South, they’d sound like Harmann.

Anthems rolls scenes from your memory back to when you used to lay on the grass and look at the sky. When you used to run away and roll marbles down a path of tamped earth. It’s muted and loud. A match to a moth wing.

In “The Trouble Starts” he sings:

Burn this valley out save the edge of town we tuck ourselves in the crease of maps and long for the time when we’re fine knowing there’s no going back we scream out our names with bruised bloody lungs.

Harmann plays Tractor Tavern - Oct. 27th w/ Carrie Akre.