God Bless The Hunger, the new release out today from NYC via Boston songwriter Gabriel Birnbaum under his Boy Without God alter-ego, combines forceful pop songwriting in the singer-songwriter tradition with extended forms, complex orchestration, and the wilder side of jazz and improvised music. The result is a major work: an album that fuses its own set of unusual influences into a powerful whole. It’s a record with musical depth and emotional impact, both relevant and timeless.
God Bless The Hunger was recorded to tape at The Soul Shop, an all-analog studio, in an old piano repair facility in Medford, Massachusetts, with the help of a dozen other musicians (including members of Boston luminaries Debo Band, Hallelujah the Hills, Sleepy Very Sleepy, and Faces On Film, a group of like-minded musicians who have clustered around the studio).
Boy Without God – Slow Life from Boy Without God on Vimeo.
–Chrissy Prisco