Soft, peaceful and occasionally silent, J. Tillman's new release Year in the Kingdom is a perfect shadow of Vacilando Territory Blues (released earlier this year). This release, if you can believe it, is even more silent than some of his earlier work. On tracks like "There is No Good in Me" the music all together halts, and screeches from what sounds like a child's rusty swing set bring us back together with familiar plucks from behind a harp of sorts. Most of the songs are very prayer like, pleading, leading us through tails of broken religion and distant heartbreak. Tillman's melodies are always beautiful and this new release has further solidified him as not just another singer-songwriter. The only downside to the album is a lack of a buildup. Even his most intense songs are not nearly what they could be. But what Tillman lacks in intensity, he makes up for with emotion and that is ultimately why we love him.
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