Roy Borland has launched its best project to date. A beautiful collection of folk songs that show both their intention to seek tranquility in frantic times and its immense sensitivity. In ‘Consider’, the song of the day, Borland delivers one of the most beautiful pieces that you will hear this year.
A folk minimalist with multiple strings arrangements, by Carlos Clencia, and reminiscent of Sufjan Stevens of ‘Seven Swans’ is the basis of ‘Consider’. However, the soul of the subject lies in Borland himself, which demonstrates a refreshing maturity. This describes the song as “the beginning of my awakening in music” and the first in which it is “aware of my position and task as a young musician.”
Singed with an almost whispered voice, Roy’s letters seek to distill love until they are left alone: ”Consider me a friend forever, when you want to talk / consider yourself energy from a source, which will never end,” he sangs in the first lines. Impossible not to melt with phrases like this: “Accommodate and sing what you want, even if it is not a song.”
‘Consider me’ is also Roy’s first album in Spanish. In it, it translates the music of other times, those in which music was an absolute protagonist, to the present and the concerns it brings. Borland costs that the album was recorded in two days and that it represents a new stage in his life, composing “freely from tranquility.” The result of having “internalized and accepted the first great blows of adulthood.”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw3f63oetau
