"RELEASE" Now availble to order
Andrew Baum's debut album "Release" is now available through amazon.com. Order your copy today.

This debut album from New York based singer-songwriter Andrew Baum, like it's title "RELEASE", commands that you let go and give in. Whether you resist or not, by the end of one listen, you will find music that goes down lush and smooth.

In warm ballads and inviting melodies, Baum evokes all our sun-dappled afternoons and bittersweet times with open and quiet emotionality reminiscent of Billy Joel in the 70s. Relying on gentle harmonies and an acoustic guitar, songs like "I Feel You Fade" and "Like the Sun" make you feel as if you're discovering Simon and Garfunkel for the first time. The more complicated productions, like "Even More", break your heart with their open-throated, yearning vocals.

For all it's tentative melancholy, this album has a simmering optimism underneath. Baum offers a peaceful and personable hope. He sings us songs of a mature hope borne out of longing, understanding too much, and knowing everything comes full circle over and over. The beauty is that Baum comes to terms and realizes that all he can do, like all of us, is "RELEASE."

*Written by Maryann Manelski

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