2017 Review: Skyway Man

As I did last year, I'm going to run through a review of yk records releases from 2017.

Technically, Seen Comin' From a Mighty Eye is the debut release from the James Wallace led project, Skyway Man, but more accurately, it's the evolution of what he'd already been doing for years under the moniker James Wallace and the Naked Light. The songs are about lost loves, extraterrestrials and navigating this planet. It's a surprisingly effective mixture of folk tales and spacey keyboards. The album was announced on Consequence of Sound with the lead single + video debuting on Stereogum. Oh, and Light In The Attic records distributes it. The majority of the year saw Skyway Man taking the show on the road on both coasts, they even recorded an Audiotree Live session that you should absolutely watch.

For me, there's a quality to these songs that sounds melancholy, curious and hopeful all at once. It's not an easy feeling to put into words but it's easy to empathize with his tales as they traverse the complexities of the world. Aaand it gets real spacey sometimes, which is undeniably enjoyable.

Available on double LP in marbled colors and streaming everywhere.