Luke De-Sciscio - 'Pulling on Each Other (LOL)'
After Luke De-Sciscio’s immensely beautiful and delicate trilogy of albums released in 2020, he returns with age-old folk influenced single, ‘Pulling on Each Other (LOL)’.
The track ‘Pulling on Each Other (LOL)’ is an instant classic, though one that might slip under the radar of passive listeners. The finger-picked acoustic guitar is a signature sound for Luke at this point, and although simple, something within it feels like it could only possibly be a Luke De-Sciscio track. The slides that embellish the riffs throughout act like fishing hooks with bait tied to their ends, they catch you slyly and pull you in, and once the song is over, you immediately want to replay it.
Luke’s reverbed vocals are timeless here, gliding across the instrumental like a swan on water. His words seem to dance between the split-second silences of the plucked strings, and yet they bounce playfully across the track too. It’s a careful battle of balance between emphasising what needs to be heard, and the humbler sentiments lurking within the lyrics at the same time. Something about this song predates even the big 70s folk legends, the likes of Simon & Garfunkel, Cat Stevens or Crosby, Stills & Nash. It almost feels like an age-old folk song sung by someone in a village bringing the townsfolk together late at night in the 1800s. There is lyrical imagery involving geese, wine, silver, dew drops and canopies. How much farther back in classic folk music can you get than that?
Be sure to check out Luke De-Sciscio’s latest stunning collection of songs on ‘Extended Folk Boy Playlist’, available now.
Words of Curtis Saunders