Lee Switzer-Woolf has taken an authentic approach to writing. This particular Album- Annihilation Signals, is a blend of acoustic folk and digital beats. The striking album is his second venture into creating an album and he has now left his listeners wanting more and more. Switzer-Woolf brings forth augmentation with an array of sound effects, creating a rich and immersive listening experience.
The Falling Shapnel of a Satellite
The Falling Sharpnel of a Satellite is the perfect opening act to the show that is this album. He paints vivid poetic images that are unimaginable to the layman. Through album, he has a dystopian metaphorical writing that leaves you with many possibilities of what he means. Every word has you pausing and soaking it in. He has an extremely unique sense of phrasing and he makes sure you know that as you enter his world.
The Bastard Bird
A song that particularly shines through is The Bastard Bird. the song begins with a prolonged opening instrumental that feels gives off a futuristic sense. But we also have songs that sound more folk than futuristic much like Tried and Tested Acts of Separation. The duality and dichotomy of such an album is what makes the listening experience all the better, giving you a wide range on the sonic landscape.
Comet Watch with Lee Switzer-Woolf
Even within the folk digital genre, he gives us an extensive range of sounds that seems incredibly pleasing and intriguing to the ear. For example, the last two songs on this album Kathy in the Seventy and Comet Watch. They are comparatively mellow, much like saying goodbye to a lover after spending all day with them, you have to say goodbye with a heavy heart now. With songs like this and more, he weaves together a blanket of noises and beats filled with different patches of cloths. He gives us a creative tapestry of sounds that leaves a mark.
The album can weasel into any film with it rich texture but a film that would benefit from these songs is The Matrix. With Lee’s incredible ability to weld all sorts of sounds together would world incredibly well in The Matrix. Another set of stories that would benefit from his song structure would be absurdist stories. Absurdism focuses more on what the story makes you feel and Lee’s music most definitely would make it on to the list of many such plays and musicals. His experimental senses are tuly unmatched.
Annihilation Signals is a powerful and thought-provoking album. It showcases a unique voice by Lee Switzer-Woolf and he gets your senses going! The album blends acoustic folk and digital beats. This combined with Switzer-Woolf’s dynamic and expressive lyrics, makes for a compelling and immersive listening experience. You cannot miss this! With Annihilation Signals, Switzer-Woolf proves is not to be ignored by the Indie music scene. He makes sure you listen to him at every corner of this album. You must give him a listen, his socials are attached below.