Gambles – Trust

Gambles – Trust (GMBLS)

Hearing singer-songwriters’ backstories is like watching TV specials about serial killers: we become accustomed to actually pretty unimaginable horrors and find ourselves expecting the ever more extreme. NYC’s Matthew Daniel Siskin, AKA Gambles, doesn’t seem to have suffered much more than your average alcohol-drinking middle class white person, so the details of his life that help contextualize his songwriting, like loving Leonard Cohen or watching a relationship crumble in the wake of a miscarriage, come off as both mundane and utterly relatable. Fortunately, rather than stay silent, Gambles got drunk and started singing anyway, and on his surprisingly evocative full length debut he delivers somber, plainspoken poetry printed on a weary and extraordinary voice.

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