St. Anthony Mann - What You Were Looking Back For (Self Release)

The Slow Music Movement
Sep 2
1 min read

This is the cover for St. Anthony Mann's, "What You Were Looking Back For" single. It's two pastoral photos laid on top of each other, with the top one showing a grassy field and the tattooed arm of a figure on the left outstretched. The cover is overlaid with doodles of cups, spirals, and a ghost, creating a whimsical feel.

Hailing from. and after some wandering. still living in Minnesota, St. Anthony Mann has been releasing some mighty fine, dreamy indie folk and light touch folktronica with some out of the box arrangements that drift easily through the speakers for the last few years. He also takes it live with a four-piece outfit and has a nice lyrical line. I'm down.

An indistinct photo of St. Anthony Mann in a hat against a clear blue sky, bending slightly forward but looking back over his left shoulder. The simplicity creates a calm, serene mood.

The song starts in pleasant fashion with ambient pads (always a good sign) and the drum machine nudging the guitar to get a lick on, which it obligingly does with gentle, bucolic refrain before tagging Mann to join in with his unhurried, soft edged, distinctive delivery to tell his tale.

And so the song continues in lovely dreamy fashion, the instrumentation and voice gently swirling around each other before melting into the slide augmented, ambient cushion. If that wasn't enough, and it should be, the song takes an early bath allowing his guitar infused ambient dreamscape to have its moment in the sun - drifting through the speakers to hang in the air of your listening space, soothing and calming as it settles slower than dust on your speaker cabinet. Lovely stuff, and there's plenty more where that came from too.