Indie/folk songwriter Cameron Leahy has shared his transcendent indie gem, “From The Infinite,” available to stream now on all DSPs. The prescient track looks into a void, imagining the search for truth as a nighttime drive on winding roads through seaside canyons, “past oil rigs in the mist,” “into caverns past the light… entering the dark zone where we lived.” The track will be featured on Leahy’s debut full-length album, Dizzy Freedom, out June 7th.
“I like the idea that certain locations on earth get better reception on our inner clarity antenna,” says Leahy. “Portals to the past. Ancient places. There’s a certain vibration in the landscape.”
Leahy’s blend of indie rock and folk evokes a nomadic existence — wanderers moving across the desert, through the muggy south, up the coast and back into a vision of an ocean town mirage. On his forthcoming debut solo album, Dizzy Freedom, this haunting American landscape comes into glittering focus like a night sky. The characters in Leahy’s songs transmit ghostly guidance across this modern twilight zone. “I touched on something new/ It’s up to you.” It’s an apt mission statement for an artist writing songs that could just as easily have been dug up from the distant past as beamed in from a future traveler.
Dizzy Freedom was self-produced by Leahy in his southern California studio. It’s an intimate and equally expansive collection of songs from the gifted songwriter who started his career in the Virginia-based band, The Downtown Fiction, before beginning to write and self-produce in Los Angeles under his own moniker. The album, which in moments evokes the craft of artists like Neil Young and The Kinks, playfully twists the form into new territory, reimagining what it means to make music for a digital age, Leahy could just as easily be remarking on his own journey when he observes in the closing lines of “Monterey”: “Find yourself and you’re free.”
What do you think off Cameron Leahy’s latest, “From The Infinite”?
