Hoxsey Blends Gothic Folk and Stripped-Back Songwriting on Latest Record Harvest Moon Sessions

Described by its creator as "music for changing seasons, longer shadows, and the things we carry with us," Harvest Moon Sessions is a thirteen-track offering of some of the most raw, intimate, and deeply personal music I've heard in a long time. 

Courtesy of a musician known only as Hoxsey, the album was recorded on a Tascam 4-track tape machine. It's a deliberately stripped-back approach in which the limitations of the gear are fully embraced and highlighted - and it gives the record an air of warmth and authenticity that feels harder and harder to come by these days.

Now, let me be the first to say that Harvest Moon Sessions is an album one needs to spend some time with. A hazy and experimental blend of gothic folk, alternative rock, and acoustic songwriting - it's not exactly an "easy" listen. But beneath its gritty, sometimes even challenging exterior, there's an honest, moving, and vulnerable record waiting to be discovered.

Personal favourites include acoustic versions of Humans and Over the Mornings New Moon, as well as the album's dark and brooding closer, Rowboat Purgatory. That said, Harvest Moon Sessions is best experienced from beginning to end. It'll take time to absorb - and that's OK. Then it'll click - and it'll all make sense.

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