Lately [Vinyl LP]

On his debut solo album Lately, Paul Schalda channels the human experience with a transparent, poetic purity. The Texas transplant troubadour's folk-flecked indie soul is at once vulnerable, personal, and hugely relatable. Lately is a record permeated with love in all it's incarnations: romantic, familial, parental, brotherly, and musical. Album opener "Alarmist" sets the tone; it's an ode to the human experience with a vastness and sonic depth apt to it's subdued lyrical angst. Lead single "Anything For Your Love" is a subtly exotic, slightly sepia-toned 70's radio record produced by Adrian Quesada of the Black Pumas. It's a statement of complete devotion with universally relatabl