Daren Reece Lamberton’s Ashes of the Clown cremated the sting of fleeting happiness through smoulderingly sombre folk melancholy

Daren Reece Lamberton cut the anticipation for his sophomore solo single short with the unveiling of the sombre sublimity of Ashes of the Clown. As a cremation of all the times you naively thought happiness might linger longer than it ever did, the 70s-tinged folk pop serenade strikes through to the tenderest nerves. Lamberton holds an almost psychic connection to his fretboard, each chord chosen with superlative sensitivity, each lyric steeped in a weary wisdom that only arrives after walking through a few too many emotional fires. The track finds him standing at the intersection of vulnerability and craftsmanship, where the soul decides to speak plainly instead of performing for applause. As the rhythm unfolds, Ashes of the Clown feels intimately eternal, its stripped-back delivery leaving nowhere to hide and nowhere you’d rather be. The quiver in his vocals mirrors the weight of what’s been left unsaid, and the melody settles into you like the dusk of your soul. If fairness dictated the airwaves, Lamberton’s raw confessional would already be on A-lists across both sides of the Atlantic. After forty years of making music across projects and stages, from drumming in his local youth club at seventeen to performing at […] The post Daren Reece Lamberton’s Ashes of the Clown cremated the sting of fleeting happiness through smoulderingly sombre folk melancholy appeared first on A&R Factory.

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Daren Reece Lamberton cut the anticipation for his sophomore solo single short with the unveiling of the sombre sublimity of Ashes of the Clown. As a cremation of all the times you naively thought happiness might linger longer than it ever did, the 70s-tinged folk pop serenade strikes through to the tenderest nerves. Lamberton holds an almost psychic connection to his fretboard, each chord chosen with superlative sensitivity, each lyric steeped in a weary wisdom that only arrives after walking through a few too many emotional fires. The track finds him standing at the intersection of vulnerability and craftsmanship, where the soul decides to speak plainly instead of performing for applause. As the rhythm unfolds, Ashes of the Clown feels intimately eternal, its stripped-back delivery leaving nowhere to hide and nowhere you’d rather be. The quiver in his vocals mirrors the weight of what’s been left unsaid, and the melody settles into you like the dusk of your soul. If fairness dictated the airwaves, Lamberton’s raw confessional would already be on A-lists across both sides of the Atlantic. After forty years of making music across projects and stages, from drumming in his local youth club at seventeen to performing at […]

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