Album Review
Gently Tender - Take Hold Of Your Promise!
4 StarsA debut that embraces optimism and nihilism in equal measures.
For their debut, the affable Gently Tender have presented a compelling collection of folk melodies, doused in silken harmonies and strung together by vocalist Sam Fryer’s deep, magnetic baritone. “Maybe I’m in heaven, or maybe I don’t care,” he contemplates on the dream-folk ‘Heaven Ho’, suggesting an indifference that intimately captures the overwhelming feeling of the last few years for the South London supergroup.
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