DANIEL ROMANO - Mosey

Romano has spent the last eight years or so displaying an uncommonly literal affinity for nudie suits and George Jones-era country. If all the personalized fretboard inlays and homages to the genre's linguistic idiosyncracies could get a little over-the-top, the quality of the music left no doubt that it was a heartfelt endeavour. On Mosey, Romano strips away many of these signifiers leaving behind a lovely slice of bygone-era country pop psych. In the process, his own talent becomes ever clearer.

"Romano had grown up in rowdy punk and indie bands in his hometown of Welland, Ontario before turning to folksy Americana as part of Daniel, Fred and Julie and drowning in pedal steels, acoustic guitars and languid, rootsy lullabies on his early solo work. Feathers were ruffled when he started calling himself the ‘King of Mosey’ and strutting about like the lonesome, bohemian ghost of Hank Williams, with many questioning whether this was some kind of hipster affectation or parody piss-take.

That was never really the case. Romano was raised on his grandparents’ Merle Haggard and Buck Owens records and although his take on old time country is filled with quirks and oddities, Come Cry With Me and last year’s If I’ve Only One Time Askin’ were incredibly loyal and well-crafted interpretations of that vintage sound. Though still lost in that era, the time machine has started to malfunction slightly on new album Mosey and his imagination is left to run wild and take us to some weird and wonderful places." - The Line of Best Fit