Ryan Power: “I Don’t Want to Die”.

February 6, 2012, 1 comments

This one dropped into my inbox last week and hit me completely unexpected, not least as the last thing I heard from our favorite Vermont enterprise (no offense) NNA Tapes was the listed creepiness of Nate Young’s Stay Asleep. On top of that, the above album cover does not give you slightest hint of what will happen to your consciousness once you’ve hit the play button: New Hampshire native Ryan Power makes simple yet soulful, achingly honest and unashamedly beautiful avant pop that blissfully lies somewhere left of the field where you didn’t even start looking in the first place. Which makes him all the more special.

I Don’t Want to Die is out April 3 via NNA Tapes. Listen to the breathtaking title track below (which is, according to TMT, not even the album’s best track, something we unfortunately can neither confirm nor deny at this point).

Ryan Power – I Don’t Want to Die