synesthesiais a social music journal

Nicholas Chen

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1/30/2026

this song feels like julian took the major-minor interplay of blues, took it apart, and reassembled it into something new. he uses that same melodic language without playing something that sounds bluesy

you can think of julian lage as embodying the totality of "american music" traditions - blues, bluegrass, and jazz