Album Notes

Nat Baldwin's follow-up to "Lights Out" and his first full length release for Broken Sparrow Records adds two cellists, trumpet and drums to his signature double-bass and compelling vocals. "With a voice somewhere between Karl Blau and Jeff Buckley, Baldwin lays hallucinatory vocal textures over abstract instrumental textures, creating genuine drama in the album-stopping “Enter the Light Out”. More experimental cuts—a sleighbell meditation called “Spells”, and the moody, meditative acoustic bass ramble of “X-Factor”—showcase Baldwin’s free music credentials, while quick bowed “Into the Night” feels at once baroquely classical and like an Elephant Six song held underwater. - Jennifer Kelly POPMATTERS.COM "It’s absolutely intriguing how Baldwin squeezes so many different emotional tonalities out of his instrument. Most of the time belching out deep, buzzing notes, sometimes unleashing a cacophony of sounds but just as easily, he makes them float gently like traces of smoke through thin air.-Joris Heemsark FOXYDIGITALIS.COM "Nat Baldwin is a singular voice, charting out his own direction in the midst of the cluttered and often repetitive music scene. Baldwin's voice acts as an instrument as much as anything else found here-- a stirring and emotive mix between the warm rich tones of Andrew Bird and the gorgeous falsetto of Jeff Buckley. His words are unintelligible at times, but it doesn't truly matter what he's saying, as the sounds of his voice swirl in and around the music itself--weaving itself in, adding texture, and warming the sometimes icy and tension-filled arrangements. Incorporating elements of jazz, noise, folk and experimental freakouts, Enter the Winter is equal parts joyful and heartbreaking, mournful as well as hopeful. The sounds created here may be organic; however, his musical vision is anything but as the listener is lifted from the ground and transported deep into the dreamy inner workings of Baldwin's musical mind." -SCTAS.COM