Backstrom will create waves of emotions and imagery in your mind. A talented songwriting and composer, there is some familiarity about this music that is rooted. Though it might be the first time you’re listening to his songs, there is a warm, welcoming embrace in what he writes. This is his latest single with Bart Topher, called The Journey.
His baritone voice has a rich temperance to it. This is what makes the lyrics last for so long in your mind. The journey has the familiar percussion of the chugging train you would have witnessed or experienced. Using that as a palette, this canvas has a lot of art to decipher. Simple guitar tones are used, there is a rich acoustic tenor that lasts as a sonic spine. When the slide elements and harmonics make their way, you can truly feel the music take control, producing a link between the verses with a turn in shade. It is a soothing and emotional song which brings a lot of poetry with the movement and flow of a country track. Backstrom has his own signature voice where it can be just him and his guitar, it is more of a page in this journal he writes into so brilliantly.
A great movie for this song to feature would be Before Sunrise (1995). It is a powerful movie with a lot of inferences with similar metaphors. You can listen to Backstrom with his songs like Animal, and It’s Too Late. Listen to his music above and follow him for more like this!