At this point in his burgeoning career, it might be easy for alt-country artist Garrett T. Capps to settle into being the"I Love San Antone" Guy.
Written during the early days of the pandemic and recorded a few months after, there's plenty of soul searching in the lyrics, which the kaleidoscopic musical approach helps amplify. Even on the more straight-ahead numbers, the wavery steel guitar and electronic treatments lend a shimmering ambiance, as if Brian Eno decided to move to Nashville instead of composing music for airports.
Aside from a couple of clunky moon-spoon rhyming schemes early in the album, Capps shows himself to be an adept lyricist, opening up about his own failings, fears and insecurities while looking for hope around the corner."Stay cool, it's gettin' better / Just gotta hold it all together," he urges the listener in"Gettin' Better," the album's two-step ready opener.