The Full-Bodied Folk Tones Of Nolen Sellwood

One of the latest releases from Nolen Sellwood touches on a very warm and welcoming style of storytelling and a lush folk approach that reels in a youthful undertone while remaining somewhat rustic and full-bodied.
"To Be Saved" is quite a beautifully woven single that showcases this particular artist's ability to create something that feels like a hug from a loved one.
Gorgeous jazz tones fill the air and this coming sensation kind of falls over you as you swim through the soundscape that fills the air around you.
There's something about this song that is so fulfilling in a way. It's almost like it creates memories that you feel like you might come back to later in life.
It feels like going camping with friends and floating face up in the lake staring at the stars in the night sky and just soaking everything in.
The track features all kinds of great instrumentation performed just right dynamically for the cinematic aspects of the song itself.
You have beautiful strings that swell in and out, acoustic instrumentation that is massive feeling, and vocals that sit atop just right and compliment everything else in the song.
This was a very well built and tracked single. The way it was recorded was really smart because the acoustic guitars and instrumentation are all not only very well balanced, but it really does surround you and so you become kind of engulfed in this one.
And with songs like this it feels great to let that happen. You kind of become part of the story and you let the song take you away from where you are and put you in a different place.
Almost like an escape. Which is what good music, at least singer-songwriter and folk songs like this should give you. An escape.
You don't sit there just thinking of your own life and your own situation, you get whisked away to this other place all together and when the song ends you look around and plant your feet back on the ground.
It's one of the most fun aspects of songs like this and Sellwood absolutely nails it.
Anyone that's into folk and really lush songwriting will love this song.