One of many highlights from Stray Fossa‘s third album, Blossomer, “I Was There” enamors in its lovely melding of jangly guitars, heartfelt strings, and steady acoustic strums. “I saw it clear as I’d hoped after all these years,” the vocals open with lucid enthrallment, arrviving into the lovely interplay of strings and guitar as the “I remember it, so much better now” continued illuminated sense. The final minute also compels in its mixture of understated acoustics and forlorn strings, then perked up again by a re-entry of jangly guitars. “I Was There” is another strong offering from Stray Fossa.

Stream the entirety of Blossomer:

The project elaborates on “I Was There” in particular:

“The line “photographs leave nothing to talk about” gets at something I have noticed about digital media. The ease at which one can now take pictures and document everything makes it harder to actually experience those moments and make a deeper emotional connection to them. Memory is a very active process that requires one’s full presence. These days it is so easy to get distracted, to get pulled away from the present. So one snaps it up instead, saving it for a later date. And even if there’s visual proof that you were there at that place in time, one can only wonder: were you really?”

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This and other tracks featured this month can be streamed on the updating Obscure Sound’s ‘Emerging Singles’ Spotify playlist.

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