Skip to main content

Maverick Ad

Home

Main navigation

  • Home
  • Cover Stories
  • Features
  • News
  • Reviews
  • Cashbox Legacy Awards
  • Past Covers
  • Weekly Archive
Joseph Brooks Organ Promises to “Make Sure You Know” on New Single

Breadcrumb

  • Home
  • Joseph Brooks Organ Promises to “Make Sure You Know” on New Single
Joseph Brooks
Fri Jun 11, 2021
Cashbox Canada

Remember when James Taylor hummed that we’ve “got a friend”? And all we’d have to do is call out, and a friend would be delivered? Welcome Joseph Brooks Organs — a singer/songwriter, troubadour, and softly sweeping lyrical mastermind who could readily be James Taylor making-good on that 70’s promise.

Originally hailing from London, Ontario, but calling Toronto home for nearly the past two decades, this multi-instrumentalist’s charming indie-acoustic vibe is a quaint canvass of love and all its wonderment on his latest offering, Lovelorn.

The sophomore album is a follow-up to Organs’ debut EP Tape from 2013. As he recalls, “[This album was] recorded by nine different musicians all in their own apartments due to self-isolation protocol,” adding, “Lovelorn is a product of the pandemic, and a testament to the will to go on creating whatever the impediments to that process may be.”

A collection of love songs, chronicling the protagonist’s struggles, triumphs, steadiness and readiness, Lovelorn qualifies the notion of love and why it’s worth falling into at all. “The album has a narrative arc which describes the loss of love in its many stages,” explains Organs. “The title track ‘Lovelorn’ depicts the subject now completely removed from love, watching other couples feel it, but unable to access the feeling himself.

“The final track ‘Nosong’ has our narrator reconciled to his loss of love, albeit in a complicated sort of way. Zooming out, he becomes philosophical in his asceticism, pondering the abstract and illusory nature of concepts like love and life.”

Lovelorn leads off with “Make Sure You Know,” a simply sophisticated ode of honesty. Our hero acknowledges that “love can sometimes slip away,” despite not understanding why.

Check out “Make Sure You Know” on YouTube here:

But armed with this awareness, he promises his lover that she will be the first one to be made aware so they can walk away peacefully and without anger, resentment, or hurt. Organs’ finds magic in delivering a song so rich in beautiful, seemingly happy melodies, but yet, so alarmingly sad in its sorrowful lyrics. This fair weather approach to the reality of potential heartbreak is equally blunt as it is subtle in its hope that circumventing hurt is at all possible.

Organs’ folk-crafted acoustic record comes complete with a whistled bridge that ties the entire track together. It offers a semblance of acceptance – our narrator willfully, if not dutifully reminds us that there is a darker side of love we all prefer to ignore, but he refuses. And he’s going to accept the risk of falling out of love with grace and dignity.

Lovelorn is a journey through the lens of a lover’s emotional highs, and desperate lows. His fears, and his losses. Candidly sung truths that pepper the story with authenticity and ability to connect with listeners. Through experience and emotion, Joseph Brooks Organs makes sure to know how to reach into the depth of your soul and display it endearingly through song.

For more visit:
josephbrooksorgan.com/
instagram.com/jergannns/
facebook.com/JosephBrooksOrgan
open.spotify.com/track/5iuSHYeuoq38q97aRLCg8R?si=afd40407c17442cb&nd=1

Reviews
Album
Joseph Brooks Organ
Month: Feb 2022
Mad Symphony Rockers Mad Symphony Are Ready to “Do It All Over Again” with Release of New Single…
Isabel and the Uncommons Photo Credit David Leye Isabel & The Uncommons Release New Single and Video – “Distance”
Robb Nash Canadian Rocker Robb Nash is Declaring War on Mental Illness with “This Is War”
Bryan Bravo Toronto Pop/Hip Hop Artist Bryan Bravo Invites Audiences to “Feel Lucky”…
Natalie Nicole Gilbert Natalie Nicole Gilbert Reimagines 90s Hit “Snow on the Sahara”
Chris Caulfield Chris Caulfield Releases New Rock/Hip Hop “Stockholm Syndrome” Single
Chris Corey Chris Corey Releases New Single “Storms We Face”
Long Black Cadillacs Long Black Cadillacs Releases New Video and Single “True Love”
Village Manor Alt-Folk Rockers Village Manor Implore the World to Put “Gunsaway” with…
Evil Tongues Vancouver Alt-Pop New Wave Rockers EVIL TONGUES Unleash Synth-Infused New…
Edison Rupert Ottawa Rocker Edison Rupert Recounts A Tale of Hard Living in “Ticket To A Place”
Arrested Development Hip Hop, Rap & Soul Artists Arrested Development Release New Anthem, “…
Montreal's Bad Skin Denounce “Clowns For President” Montreal's Bad Skin Denounce “Clowns For President” in Deliciously…
Caroline Cotto Southern Gothic Songbird Caroline Cotto Sends Out a Blues Call for “A Momma To Cry…
Celogen Calgary-based Experimental Pop Artist Celogen Releases Riveting Album,…

Pagination

  • First page « First
  • Previous page ‹ Previous
  • …
  • Page 59
  • Page 60
  • Page 61
  • Page 62
  • Current page 63
  • Page 64
  • Page 65
  • Page 66
  • Page 67
  • …
  • Next page Next ›
  • Last page Last »

CEO/PUBLISHER/EDITOR IN CHIEF
SANDY GRAHAM

email:sandygrahamemg@gmail.com 

Canadian Journalists:

Contributing Journalist - Canada and Global
Don Graham
email: dongrahamwriter@gmail.com

Contributing Journalist - Canada and Global
Lisa Hartt
email: lisahartt87@hotmail.com

Contributing Journalist - Canada 
Michael Williams
email: greydread@gmail.com

 

 

 

 

International Journalists:

Contributing Journalist - Sweden
Malin Osth
email: malin@musicdays.se

Contributing Journalist - Sweden
Jonas Tancred
email: jonas@musicdays.se

Contributing Journalist - USA
Rob Durkee 
email: rockster2746@gmail.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

Web Developer/Technical Support
Chris Wardman

email: info@chriswardman.com
website: chriswardman.com

Cashbox Cover Design and Graphic Artist
Jain McMillan

email: jainmcmillan@gmail.com

Contributing Photographer 
Tracey Savein - South Paw Productions
southpawproductions@rogers.com

 

 

 

Footer menu

  • Home
  • Features
  • News
  • Reviews
  • Cashbox Archive
  • Issue Archive
  • Past Covers