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Alternative, Americana, classic rock, folk, indie folk, singer-songwriter, Portland.

Why Medicine, the new album from Portland songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Adam Selzer, is both stark and luminous, confronting the weight of trauma, silence, and survival with unflinching honesty. Across twelve songs, Selzer weaves stories of abuse, generational wounds, and fragile belonging, circling the ways people cope through armor, faith, medicine, or denial. Yet within the darkness are fleeting sparks of light: the sound of a choice, the possibility of change, the faint persistence of grace.

Rich but restrained arrangements frame the album like bookends of memory. Strings, pedal steel, Mellotron, gospel organ, clarinet, and trumpet drift through Selzer’s guitar work, creating a sound that feels both intimate and expansive. Vulnerability becomes a form of freedom, and survival itself an act of connection.

With Why Medicine, Selzer turns inward after decades of producing and recording for others. The result is his most vulnerable and expansive work to date, fearless, tender, and unafraid to ask what we hold onto when life becomes unbearable, and what we reach for in order to heal.

Tracks:
01. The Sound of a Choice
02. I Want to Believe It
03. Ascension
04. When the Burden is Armor
05. Couldn’t Belong
06. Busy Signal
07. Years Disappeared
08. 8 Years Today
09. While It Lasts
10. Well, Alright
11. The Darkness of Prayer
12. Why Medicine

Staat er compleet op, 10% pars mee gepost. Met zeer veel dank aan de originele poster. Laat af en toe eens weten wat je van het album vindt. Altijd leuk, de mening van anderen. Oh ja, MP3 doe ik niet aan.