Sontalk - Stay Wild (2LP)

Facts Double vinyl LP pressing. 2019 release. Stay Wild follows the personal trials and triumphs of Joseph LeMay, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist behind Sontalk. By way of familial candor and visceral vulnerability, the twelve tracks comprising Sontalk's full-length debut album Stay Wild, chronicle LeMay's journey of self-reflection, discovery, acceptance and ultimately, growth. The album is an expansion of the emotional terrain covered in his introductory EP, Sontalk: Act I. The lead offering from Stay Wild, "Baby, I'm Gone" fuses a stark and soulful vocal to sinewy acoustic guitar and a glitchy beat, with LeMay's haunting voice echoing with powerful passion and plaintive poetry. Elsewhere the album is grounded by LeMay's powerful vocals and a delicate dissonance of multifarious sonic textures that range from distorted slide guitar transmissions, sequenced beats, vinyl samples and warm electronics. The result is a deeply emotional journey into LeMay's life, offering a therapeutic and universal wisdom meant to be shared for a long time to come.