To be honest ARREN doesn’t really help himself to get onto the pages of Americana UK: describing your music as having “the anthemic scale of iconic ’90s and 2000s pop-rock with the intimacy of singer-songwriter” and then claiming that is is “drawing inspiration from the likes of Oasis, Mumford & Sons, Hudson Taylor, and U2” is hardly the 100% guaranteed shoe-in for the site. So why is the Dublin-based, Clare/Limerick-born artist making an appearance? Well, the latest single ‘Rising Sun‘ is a gentle folk influenced singer-songwriter love ballad without the faintest hint of U2 or M&S. And sometimes it turns out that a gentle folk influenced singer-songwriter love ballad is exactly what we need – you might think that the world has had enough of silly love songs, well it appears that that is not so.
Just to complicate the matter, there’s a possibility of a slight punnery being played as ARREN explains that the song “captures the bittersweet beauty of leaving home while honouring the love and legacy of one’s parents.” Sun / son – get it? Hmm. By the way the harmonica and banjo on the track is courtesy of Tom Hartman.
