Music Review // Jont "You In The World"
Jont slowly strums an acoustic guitar and sings about topics that need to be discussed more on the song "You In The World". There is a certain type of musician who can create songs where it doesn't just feel like the lyrics are there to rhyme or be catchy, but rather to tell a story and exist in a similar way to poetry. This is how I feel about Jont. I think of this as being a lot like poetry, but there is just something about having that type of voice where you need to sing it. If I had a similar voice, I would certainly sing more. To further that idea of how these lyrics can feel like poetry, there are the lines: "Fertility fecundity / Unfurling miraculously / The softest yolk that dreams the brightest sun". While you can sing along with that, some people might not even know what some of those words mean, which can make it feel like you're speaking above them but I see it as a good chance for listeners to crack open a dictionary and...