Asheville, NC’s Jackson Scott will release his debut LP Melbourne, out July 23rd via Fat Possum. Scott’s music is home produced, a solo project that he records to 4-track, and later edits in Garageband. The young artist originally moved to Asheville to attend college, but soon found making music and doing his own thing to be more interesting, so he dropped out and immersed himself in the local scene, telling Pitchfork’s Ian Cohen, “The skies are always really beautiful, and everyone is into being weird and not really giving a fuck about anyone else being weird.”
Scott also proclaims a love for Syd Barrett and catchy melodies, and both influences come out on this newly previewed cut “Sandy“. Using multiple tracks of pitch-shifted vocals, Jackson effuses a child-like wonder reminiscent of Barrett’s, but the children’s choir he builds from his own voice, here, is really meant as a moving tribute to the kids who lost their lives at Sandy Hook! The lyrics, when considered from that vantage, are pretty damn sad, but brilliantly, Scott wraps them in a tender and most dreamy, strum-a-long melody.
