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\nNick Delffs : Present ed by Sou’wester Arts
\nNick Delffs grew up in Mendocino Co unty\, a lawless stretch of coastline that’s hard to get to and\, for many \, hard to escape. Nick did — emerging in the early aughts as the frontman for Portland band The Shaky Hands\, whose sharp\, jittery rock was anchor ed by Nick’s quavering vocals and questing lyrics. The Shaky Hands were ma instays of Portland on the verge of a major shift\, and they rode that shi ft a while\, signing to Kill Rock Stars and touring internationally with s ome of the bigger names in indie rock. But a hiatus in 2011 became indefin ite and Nick Delffs was once again cast into the world: working as a sidem an\, releasing solo records\, doing manual labor\, going deeper into his s piritual practices\, and\, crucially\, becoming a father.
\nBecoming a parent can affect different artists in different ways. Nick rode that c hange with surpassing grace and maturity. 2017’s Redesign\, his f irst full-length under his own name\, reflected the transition. In “Song f or Aja”\, Nick touched on other concerns familiar to those who follow his work: love of the natural world\; longing for spiritual and physical conne ction\; the desire to suffer with meaning and exult with abandon\, to embr ace somehow the world in its maddening contradictions and find the unity a t the core.
\nChildhood Pastimes\, his second release on Ma ma Bird Recording Co.\, is both more focused and\, despite being technical ly an EP\, more ambitious. It’s a four-song cycle — one song with many mov ements or four songs that bleed into one another\, depending on how you he ar it — that can be viewed either as a personal journey or an archetypal p assage of a human being through four discrete stages: roughly\, the moveme nt from childhood innocence into adolescent adventure (The Escape)\; the s udden immersion into a life of discovery and excitement (The Dream)\; the first experience of romantic love\, followed by the onset of heartbreak\, dissolution\, breakdown of self (The Affair)\; the emergence into a new wa y of thinking\, a fresh perspective that encompasses all the suffering and joy into a balanced whole (The Outside).
\nNick plays nearly all of the instruments here and the result is a unified aesthetic\, born ultimat ely of his deep-seated love of rhythm: the thrum and throb of the acoustic guitars\, the percussive melodic bang of the elegantly-crafted piano line s\, and always\, always the insistent\, driving drums\, propelling the rec ord\, and the listener\, on this journey as the four tracks bleed into one another\, one body\, one blood\, one beating heart. The concept of four s ongs that are really one suite of music requires a sure hand\, and Nick’s never shakes: the way the songs blend together while retaining their disti nctiveness — from the poppy exaltation of “The Escape” to the cold intensi ty\, almost like an acoustic Kraftwerk\, of “The Affair” — shows a songwri ter and musician who has fully grown into his powers.
\nThose who ha ve followed Nick’s career may see this as a culmination of years and years of honing and fine-tuning his bountiful gifts\, and wonder with delight w hat might come next. For those who haven’t listened to Nick before\, C hildhood Pastimes is the perfect entry point\, a distillation of what ’s come before and the promise of a new beginning.
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