While the theme is one of overcoming adversity and battling your fears, some songs have a dreary feel to them

rich soulful female vocals and rhythmic 16 bar rhymes with a Smörgåsbord of instrumentals

The mourning of a death of a relationship he didn’t want to end.

for what it is, it’s made well, it’s just not made for me

one would expect the album to be a further progression towards a brand of beautiful blues truer to themselves and I would say, for the most part, it is

“Not A Trampoline” wonderfully navigates the battlefield of love to deliver to us an appropriately non-uniform telling of his trials

A freshman album that took a gap year abroad