ONELINEDRAWING ‘VISITOR’ LP – TRANSLUCENT BLUE

LABEL: Jade Tree
VINYL RELEASE DATE: 8/19/2022
ORIGINAL RELEASE DATE: 2002
VARIANT: Translucent Blue Vinyl LP

Onelinedrawing is ostensibly a solo project for former Far vocalist and leader Jonah Matranga. The acoustic leanings of the project coupled with his highly emotive subjects — lead track “Um…” bitterly laments his divorce by softly intoning “I’m so sorry for my dreams,” while “But It Was Close” presents anguished regret over a simple acoustic guitar — will cause some to immediately think of Dashboard Confessional. They wouldn’t be that inaccurate either. A duo of more upbeat material — the quirky, synth-augmented “Smile,” which wouldn’t be out of place on a Posies platter, and the slightly more dynamic “Bitte Ein Kuss,” which namechecks Carl Yastrzemski and coins the phrase “In the bed disco” as a euphemism for sex — betray his indie-pop roots; but make no mistake, Visitor is a mostly unplugged-sounding disc that fits into a coffeehouse far more complacently than a rock club.