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 Caught in the Carousel - "There will be music despite everything"
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David Vertesi
Cardiography
FUM
Former Hey Ocean! Alum David Vertesi’s first solo outing is a gentle eleven-song meditation about the trajectory of the human heart. “Beneath my skin is where I keep my beating heart in its weak frame,” Vertesi sings on the opener “Mountainside.” The frame may be weak, but Vertesi’s heart blasts mightily away with joy and sadness and love. Deep voiced and loaded with finesse in his phrasing and a subtle pop charm, Vertesi is an endearing artist because he’s not interested in hiding the whims and desires of the human heart, he’s more interested in chronicling what happens when things happen to it. And happen they do: “Broadcasting” is a spry little number about trying to outrun despair; “Gentlemen Say” is a wobbly study of the repercussions of late nights and good manners and “All Night, All Night, All Night” is buoyed by a drowsy wish to remix the night and stay in bed with someone “like it’s still the weekend.” Later, the slow, winning drag of “Hearts Don’t Break, People Do” is a wrenching look at sexual disaffection and the album ends with Vertesi wisely observing, “We’re scared of our own hearts.” He appears to be suggesting that if you’ve got a heart, you should go ahead and let it get broken. After all, that’s what it’s there for.
—Alex Green
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