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NATURAL CYCLES Orlando’s Someday River step back into the spotlight with plenty of new music to share BY MAISIE HA N EY
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f you’ve been around the Orlando scene for any decent length of time, you’re surely acquainted with the soothing synesthesia of Someday River. If I never went to a show of theirs on purpose, I still would have seen them a heaping handful of times during their prolific performance peak back in 2017. Someday River is comprised of vocalist-guitarist Greyson Charnock, bassist Kial Fournier and drummer Sean Boyle, with Charnock crowned the head honcho. Though vocal and visible in our little art and music scene, there is so much still left up to our imaginations. How can Papa Smurf and his Stepdaddy-supporting band members be so mysterious? For starters, we have still never been given a proper origin story. “Why would you do this to me?” pleads Charnock in mock-resignation. Charnock laments that he’s a late bloomer when it comes to performing. Though he picked up the guitar at age 10, he wasn’t in a band until the advanced age of 22 (coincidentally, the same age as the Slits’ Viv Albertine when she bought her first guitar). Bellows was the name of Charnock’s first project, which was renamed Someday River after a few years. There were several reasons behind this. One, it became confusing with a then-notable project from Brooklyn also called Bellows. Two, this new name held more personal meaning for Charnock, and it certainly matches the laidback riffs that saturate each Someday River track. Charnock gave us a brief look behind-the-scenes on Someday River | Photo by Hannah Glogower Someday River’s creative practices and division of labor. It is every bit as go-with-the-flow as you might expect. The songs with an emphasis on lyrics are usually written by be making good on that promise with a new single set for inspiring the band’s future releases, Charnock cites notable Charnock solo, as sometimes he’s struck with inspiration release in the near future. It’s a collaboration between indie-folk players like Kevin Morby and the dreamy St. while, say, watering his plants. On the other hand, melodic Someday River and Andrew Ficker, the Detroit producer Pete outfit Chlorinefields. More indietronic in nature, or perhaps just more boisterous, he includes Karina Rykman, and saxophonist. jams are usually written as a group, Tonstartssbandht and Fast Preacher as artists he has been Charnock credits Ficker for getcollaboratively, in their rehearsal ting the ball rolling on this artistic listening to as of late, always with love to current and former space. SOMEDAY RIVER Florida dwellers. union: “I went into his studio The boys have been hunkered Kevin Pm, Vestis and Merlin the Cat “I do love the natural beauty of Florida, and I definitely which he built into an RV [and] got down for a little while since the 8 p.m. Friday, July 22 to write and sing vocals and some go down to the river at least once a week to get away a release of On Dreaming in 2021, an Stardust Video & Coffee touch … dig for fossils, visit my owl and otter friends,” says guitar — it was a blast.” album of five previously released 1842 E. Winter Park Road Charnock, highlighting the necessity of balance and a good While confessing his “problem singles and three fresh new psychfacebook.com/stardustie deep breath now and again. with releasing tunes,” Charnock leaning tracks. The singles dropped $10 Someday River will take their own collective deep breath does tease the release of a “slightover the course of two years, and step back into the spotlight, instruments in hand, Friday ly folkier” mini-album in the fall despite the huge backlog of songs at Stardust. We will be further rewarded with a new song that are currently sitting on the band’s backburner, but were for a fanbase fiending for more. fresh out of the oven on Aug. 12, “Light Again.” It won’t just The band’s extended hunker has given Charnock plenty still effective in keeping their hungry fans at bay. of time to smell the roses — specifically other people’s be “someday” anymore. “I’m trying to get better at throwing [the recorded creative roses, near and far. When asked what might be songs] out there,” admits Charnock. He already looks to music@orlandoweekly.com orlandoweekly.com
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JULY 20-26, 2022 ● ORLANDO WEEKLY
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