“Flux” drifts in with a synth bass pulse and then steady percussion before bright, expansive synths bring in hanging melodic progressions. 1st Base Runner singer and songwriter Tim Husmann comes in like a bright ghost of himself offering simple yet wise observations on the experience of and living in regret and how it’s tangled up in our romantic relationships and the illusions and delusions we craft that are too often the glue that keeps people together for awhile before those same evasions of personal and mutual truth are the ingredients for the dissolution of the band even when the lingering feelings and the aftermath of the break-up still haunts us. Husmann offers different views of a relationship now in shambles from a first person perspective yet illuminates in poetic detail where people come to a profound misunderstanding of each other partly built on the lack of honesty at the outset and an unwillingness to be vulnerable and honest in the name of love. All the while Husmann articulates lingering feelings of hurt and being stuck in a place of wounded feelings while the other person has moved on. Most of us have been there and this dramatic mini-epic illustrates that ordeal in a way that sounds like he’s transcended it already. Husmann took seven years off of putting out music to rest and recuperate his creative instincts before forming 1st Base Runner but a quick listen to his new EP Ellis, the follow-up to the album Seven Years of Silence out in June 2021, showcases that the fallow time was well spent. Listen to “Flux” on Spotify and connect with 1st Base Runner at the links provided.
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