Although he’s lived there for greater than a decade, Josh Gilligan doesn’t look like Nashville materials—even when defining “Nashville materials” has turn into more and more tough as of late. Occasion Of One (Simple Does It), his modestly elegant, ruefully affecting debut, positions him as a much less intense Music Metropolis various to Elliott Smith. Or in the event you’re searching for comparisons among the many residing, Gilligan’s unassuming vocal method and comfortable folks/pop aesthetic bear greater than a passing resemblance to award-winning Canadian singer/songwriter Ken Yates.
Gilligan credit his mom for “inadvertently crafting the palette” of Occasion Of One. The center of 5 youngsters, he was closely influenced by the ’70s soft-rock and singer/songwriter fare floating round his Florida family: America, Wings, Christopher Cross. Half of the album was recorded in a good friend’s dwelling studio. The remaining options guitarist Chris Peranich and bassist Ian Shaw, each members of Nashville’s Disappearing Enamel Trick, together with drummer Soren Burkum.
MAGNET’s Hobart Rowland bought Gilligan’s tackle every observe.
1. “Something”
“To place it merely, it’s a track about placing your self on the market. That’s all anyone can do—simply preserve exhibiting up. That takes some braveness, no matter your life could seem like. It’s a ‘cheers’ to anyone re-upping and attempting to stay their life effectively.”
2. “Ceiling”
“The top of an period or season can sneak up on you, and also you simply realize it’s time to begin transferring elsewhere. It’s not likely a superb factor or a nasty factor—simply the subsequent factor to do.”
3. “Tightrope”
“This one’s about feeling like a late bloomer and selecting to imagine it’s by no means too late to do what’s proper for your self. Musically, it’s one in every of my favourite songs on the file. I wrote it with my good friend Jacob Jeffries, and it form of turned the blueprint for the musical feeling of the mission.”
4. “Free”
“It is a stay take of an instrumental written by Chris Peranich. He taught the track to the band, and we recorded it as he was instructing us. That’s the take that ended up on the file. I simply liked the vitality, and I feel it serves as a very nice, reflective turning level within the arc of the file.”
5. “Flip The Lights Again On”
“This was the primary track I recorded in my home-studio house. I used to be feeling actually caught in my writing, and I used to be so completely satisfied when this track lastly got here out of a day of simply pushing myself to get the mission going. It’s about searching for that first feeling of pleasure after some low factors. I wrote it whereas popping out of a bout of melancholy, and the refrain simply form of repeats that I used to be searching for the lights to come back again on.”
6. 500 Questions
“A track about doubt—extra particularly, about letting go of the myriad questions we could have and simply transferring ahead. Engaged on what I can and letting go of what I can’t is one thing that’s typically very laborious for me to do, so it was useful to course of it via a track.”
7. “Occasion Of One”
“At a couple of factors, it says, ‘A celebration of 1 simply isn’t that enjoyable.’ I’ve grown to like solitude, however true friendship and connection are irreplaceable issues. This track embodies that concept greater than a lot of the songs on the file.”
8. “Every thing”
“This began out as a track for my mother. It’s about talking up about how we really feel and expressing the nice issues we imagine about one another, quite than simply ready or holding these ideas in. Time can cruise on by us and really feel so quick, so I needed this track to really feel quick, too. I like ending a file about solitude on a track about reaching out to these we love.”
