Blake Layman is a musician from Charlottesville, Virginia, where he works on both furniture and songs. Layman’s music is peopled with seemingly unremarkable things: a walnut hanging from a tree, an overheated truck on the side of a highway; a brief greeting from a neighbor. In the world of these songs, even such unhistorical moments deserve—and have— their own histories. New Noise are proud to premiere the video for “Sewing Room,” taken from Layman’s forthcoming LP, Goodness, Littered, out June 25, below: There’s a word in German, sehnsucht, which describes a kind of longing-sickness; a nostalgia for something that never quite existed. Layman’s music, in its mosaic-like arrangement of little details, textured sound, and open questions create a larger sense of both sorrow and contentm...
