Singer-songwriters are dime a dozen. Songs about loss, misery and longing rarely stand out from the crowd and grip you with their voice and lyrics. Toronto-born Peter Katz’s debut album, More Nights, is a soulful blend of folk music with touches of jazz and orchestral pop. Katz’s soulful voice sings as if there’s only one person in the room—you.
Lyrically, More Nights is an album exploring love and loss in the most intimate ways. The album starts off with the introspective alt-country tune “OK.” Singing as if to remember the sorrow of some forgotten memory, Katz’s emotionality is perfect. The album takes off with the soaring song “Slate,” a cool and collected tune that breaks out into a towering string concerto that doesn’t let up. “Forgiveness” is a meditation on revenge on a grand scale—a song about a father who loses a son in a war, and realizes that the desire for vengeance is a foolish quandary and chooses forgiveness over bloodshed.
Beautiful and intimate, More Nights is an album from a young Canadian artist that shows true musical brilliance. More Nights deserves to explode onto the indie rock scene and hopefully gets Peter Katz the credit he deserves for creating such enjoyable, personal folk music.