Lyric videos. Most often words scrolling against a background of a misty field or some stationary landscape. Predictable and occasionally a bit boring, just a reason to get a song on another platform in the interwebs. So is not the case with Carlin Tripp‘s recent release for his tune “Let Me Be Your Man”, which was produced by our friend Jon Dorn at Four String Films.
Tripp says,” Enlisting Jon to do an animation has been a big goal of mine for a few years now, basically since I saw his video for Never Seen Runaway” and we think it was a good decision.
The words do make their way across the screen, but scrawled on on paper as the singer proclaims the words. At the break a sketch makes it way in. A man pensively sitting under a tree. A nice touch to where there would normally just be empty space, waiting to be filled again with the words.
The best I can come up with to describe Carlin’s music is ‘pure’. Everything from his voice, to the strum of an acoustic guitar and his words are uncomplicated and clean. Matching perfectly with one another. The addition of a fiddle moving throughout the air effortlessly and a simple bass line provide just enough of a base under Tripp’s melodic and optimistically toned voice to interplay and create enough of a sonic landscape to intrigue while allowing you to focus on his words and vocal.
He celebrates the release of his new EP ‘The Shape of the Island’ this Sunday (4/8) at The Burren in Davis Square (Somerville, MA). Special guests Jenee Halstead and Matt Borrello round out the bill and you can get tickets HERE.