Sawyer Fox faces his sorrows on "One of These Days." The Long Beach native’s debut single sounds exceptionally surefooted for a first effort, a capoed song with a waltz-like embrace which breezes by with a melancholic temperament. There are shades of the late Elliott Smith in his candid vocal delivery as well as Aimee Mann’s minor-key compositions, especially in how he expresses a bittersweet yearning for stability and identity with an otherwise optimistic tone. He could’ve done just fine with his elegant bare-bones arrangement, except that he further embellishes "Days" with a resplendent piano line that suggests his talents are broader than in first sight. Fox is onto something special here, and I can’t wait to hear what comes next. Juan Rodríguez
