With a little dub echo and dancehall flavor, Patrick Goddard’s “Hollow Home” is the kind of post-punk that draws on that era of punk when all the London punks were deep into Jamaican music of the 1970s and the musical ideas, sounds and rhythms mingled more than is often acknowledged much these days as an influence outside of ska punk. Goddard uses the melancholic tone or undertone of much of post-punk and reggae to write a song looking back on the past and lost friends whose ideals fueled their lives and bonded them and how when those friends pass on it leaves an emptiness in your concept of place and what you think of as home whether that’s a physical place, a community and or a web of social relationships like a creative scene in a city, across continents and around the world. Goddard’s use of horns to sound out a mournful melody, sure, places the music in the context of a style of music but also where that music fit in with the life he’s lead and the friend’s he’s had whose now absence haunts him. Listen to “Hollow Home” on Soundcloud and follow Patrick Goddard at the links below. They’re you can find out where to listen to more of the album Apparition (Lung Records) from which this single hails.
lungrecords.com/patrick-goddard
soundcloud.com/patrickgoddard
open.spotify.com/artist/0Z1GQGOKh1YiSGaPLhe0Ol
patrickgoddard.bandcamp.com/album/apparition
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