Awesome Underground ★ Music Review: PICTURESQUE: AWESOME UNDERGROUND ★ MUSIC REVIEW

Picturesque is a Lexington, KY based underground rock band with those "northern notes" being "crushed" by lead vocalist, Kyle Hollis (as "Alternative Press" so accurately stated).

If you follow me at all, you know that I'm constantly searching for music. But I'm also constantly being reminded that while I am capable of finding pure gems all on my own, sometimes the music that falls out of the sky and into my lap unexpectedly is the greatest treasure. With plans to see one of my favorite bands (for the third time), I nerdily began listening to some of the other bands on the tour line-up. Quickly, I realized that the band (aside from my favorite, Too Close to Touch) that I was most excited to see was the underdog of the tour, the low men on the totem pole, if you will. Actually, it's not all that surprising in retrospect, because I'm forever traveling hours to see openers on tours where I have no real interest in the headliners. But somehow, this simple trait of mine keeps surprising me. Picturesque may have been the low men on this particular totem pole, but they sure as hell were stars on that stage, politely. The guitarist would glance down at me before stepping on the barrier every single time to make sure that he didn't step on my hand (thank you for that, Zach).

This band is full of talent, and the thing that made them an unusual favorite for me was their vocalist, Kyle Hollis. His voice is definitely on the higher end, which isn't something I usually enjoy. But it fits so perfectly with the sound of this band, how could anyone not love it? To me, his voice embodies heartbreak, which works so perfectly with the lyrics he's shouting. He won't just verbalize your pain, he puts those feelings out into the air as if they had been trapped within him for ages. And even if you didn't start off listening to this music with a broken heart, once you finish this EP, you'll know what heartbreak truly feels like.

Casting spells on the strings in this band are Zach Williamson, Dylan Forrester, and Robert Mote. I'll not pretend to know which wizard makes what sound, because I'm just not that advanced. However, I will say they come in hard to rock your face off right before pulling the strings attached to the most recently created hole in your heart. No worries, though, I'm quite positive that it's all in the service of stitching it up, or at least aiding you in the task.

Cole Clark is the warlock slamming on the voodoo doll that is your exes head (he plays the drums, if you didn't catch that). Be sure to thank him for doing such a great job. You didn't think they had backed off of the drunk texts for no reason, did you?

I don't know when this band formed, but I can definitely say that they compose and perform such perfectly pieced together works of art that it blows my mind. Every space is filled with the right chord, the right beat, the right note. Through my brief interactions with this band, I conclude that Picturesque is a great group of immensely talented guys who were lucky enough to from a band that is full of compliments to one another artistically, whose music is sure to captivate the broken parts of your heart, and maybe even heal it, if you let it.

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