Kristian Phillip Valentino, the solo acoustic, singer-songwriter based in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, has released one song every month of 2021 starting in March, as a form of releasing his first full-length record “For every thing, there is a season” (which was written entirely in one week). In doing so, he welcomes in the fall, with his perfect blend of indie folk, singer-songwriter, and americana in the prideful Yell It Again.
“What started out as big blue skies, has led to autumn’s breaking…” The song is out of the concept album, where the seasons align with the rise, fall, and end of an intimate relationship – marking fall as the beginning of the ‘fall’ of their relationship, and the turn into the darker, colder seasons that grow dimmer as the months pass. Valentino released this with the hope that it would be a “balm of hope” to others, although the story being told is a sad one: a very endearing wish from a personable and incredibly talented artist, that successfully comes true in Yell It Again.
“How do you expect me to know what it is you’re thinking?” Describing his music as something that “fans of Gregory Alan Isakov, Iron and Wine and Jason Isbell, will feel comfortable in”, we hear all the necessary parts of a moving folk, rock, indie work of art, including elements that are from only the mind of Kristian – like the almost B-side that takes the shape of a pitch bended ending, and the vulnerability within the almost quiver-like vibrato in his voice. As soon as it ended, I was asking the song to yell it again.
Written by Yannick Mirko
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