jeff zentner's the dying days of summer

Posted by doubter on Thursday, April 30th, 2009

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given my propensity to tagging bands, songs, artists with such lazy and sophomoric labels as “awesome,” “killer,” “lovely,” “great,” “most excellent,” etc it may seem that my vocabulary is quite limited, but you would only be half right. sometimes, even i get hung up and such trite phrases just aint gonna cut it. such is the case with asheville native, jeff zentner and his recently released, the dying days of summer. i have been attempting to come up with something, for the past 4 days, that not only intelligently but emotionally conveys the tone of this record. still the words escape me. as i was alluding to, zentner’s the dying days of summer emits visions and themes, and when words are lacking, resort to a picture. that is exactly how the record sounds to me. stumbling through the darkness and the moss that is seemingly everywhere in places like savannah, ga. this is definitely a very southern record, but not in a southern rock kinda way, but in a you may have to live here to understand kinda way. this is not to say if you dont live or have never lived in the south you wont appreciate or dig this record, in fact quite the contrary. the dying days of summer just sounds like the south. the sounds of the south that arent really heard but felt – if that makes sense.

the dying days of summer is available through jeff and should be available through several online retailers soon, if not now.

if this is to be goodbye
your siren song


One Response to jeff zentner's the dying days of summer

  1. Amanda says:

    I agree completely about, well, pretty much everything you wrote about this album. I discovered Jeff through Myspace (about the only good thing to come of being a member of that site) a while back and have since discovered that not only is he a very talented guy, he is a very nice guy as well. His voice is as smooth and sad as the ground mist in a cemetery and his music is like a soundtrack to a southern movie about love and loss and secrets. But those lyrics…they read like deeply heartfelt letters to someone he loves. Like journal entries written when the moon is full over a lake that contains more than one dead body. Like the kind of poetry you can’t get out of your head once you’ve finished reading it.

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