Josh Rouse

Rouse has been called “one of contemporary music’s most engaging singer-songwriters” (NPR) as well as “a talent to outrank Ryan Adams or Conor Oberst” (Uncut), and with The Embers of Time he opens a new chapter in his lauded career. He split time recording the album between Valencia and Nashville, and enlisted Brad Jones (Justin Townes Earle) as producer. The record moves from the hushed twang of “Time,” where Josh recalls a stepfather who died too young and muses about his own mortality, to the deceptively sunny album closer “Crystal Falls,” which recounts a rare period of solace from his itinerant childhood. “In Crystal Falls I made a few good friends,” he sings. “It was just another stop. I never saw them again.”

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