Magnet
Patrick Park grew up a son to a poet and folk/blues guitarist, inevitably helping make him into the gifted musician he is today. Park received acclaim in 2007 when his “Life Is A Song” was the last tune played on the series finale of The OC. “Blackbird Through The Dark,” from the new Come What Will (Badman), is a cozy motif that will immediately draw in listeners. On it, Park shows off his talent as a songwriter giving kindhearted advice to a friend in need. MAGNET is proud to debut “Blackbird Through The Dark” today.
NME
Patrick Park - the Basement Tapes
The basement that gave birth to these tapes must be the same locale that Ryan Adams passed through on his way to happier times. Certainly, West Coast resident Park comes from a similarly lyrical school of alt.country songwriting as Adams and he carries these four tunes with an equally rueful tone, but if anything Patrick is even more poetically gloomy. These are rich, evocative songs about girls and poisons hitting you where it hurts hardest, and they are definitely not the last we shall hear from Park.
LA Weekly
Liam Gowing
If you were a venture capitalist looking for a solid musical investment in 1999, you would probably have put your money into safer stock than a folk purist like Patrick Park, a then-unknown Colorado transplant who was looking to scale the high-decibel rock walls of Los Angeles armed with only an acoustic guitar and a harmonica. But if so, you'd have missed the payoff of his debut album, Loneliness Knows My Name, on which Park nimbly strums his way through the tricky time-signature twists of "Nothing's Wrong," puts pain to poetry over the Nick Drake-soaked melody of "Sons of Guns" and gives alt-country a proper thrashing on the seething "Silver Girl."
CMJ
“Patrick Park is a mesmerizing singer/songwriter who should not be missed.”
Denver Post
“… Patrick Park, a Morrison-raised punk turned singer-songwriter who moved to Los Angeles three years ago to become a star. His twangy but well-constructed tunes recalled Ryan Adams, Wilco's Jeff Tweedy, Nick Drake, even John Denver.”
LA Weekly
‘Live in LA’ - “Looking and sounding like a young James Taylor, Patrick Park seemed an odd choice for an opening act [for Supergrass]. Then he sank his teeth into "Silver Girl"'s acoustic-with-attitude crunch, and you just said, "Right on."
LA Weekly
“the
astrogliding slickness of John Denver… the cross genre ingenuity of Wilco's Jeff Tweedy”
LA New Times
“Gorgeous country-tinged, Nick Drake-sparse folky songs about missed love & opportunities"
LA New Times
“He’s got the calling cards of a great future: NME gushing, opening stint for Beth Orton, KCRW spins, brilliant hair…What separates him from the bedhead pack is his uncommonly intelligent and forthright song writing, with lyrics seeming to come straight from his heart.”
Los Angeles Times ‘Buzz Bands’
“Under the Unminding Skies”, a dreamy six song collection… that suggests a folky Brian Wilson.”
MOJO
"This six song intro to Colorado-born, Silverlake-based Park starts with a Dylanesque harmonica note and ends on the Carter Family's Will the Circle be Unbroken, a manly country-blues version (his father's in the hearse). His own originals are attractive pop-Americana, particularly Nothing's Wrong - upbeat but with a hiint of sadness and a Lennonish echo to his voice."
Nashville Scene
"[Park’s] just released debut EP, "Under the Unminding Skies", is generating a buzz with a folk-pop style that sounds like a sunnier Elliott Smith - even if the lyrical content is just as tragic."
NowOnTour
“There is no doubt some groundbreaking work yet to be heard from this amazing artist”
Philadelphia Weekly
“Park's music fully exudes the ghosts of low-key troubadours from the past… His take on new-school folk-chic is delicate, but it's not dumb, and he's got a voice for the ages.”
Popmatters
“reminiscent of Kurt Cobain, with a little Morrissey thrown in for good measure… When you see a Patrick Park show, the music is the star. And in a music business over saturated with pre-packaged studio acts, an artist like Patrick Park is a welcome breath of fresh air.”
San Francisco Examiner
“more than another pretty face with a guitar and really good hair… his country-tinged brand of alt-folk has been compared to some of the genre’s finest, like Nick Drake and folkster dude of the moment Ryan Adams”.
NewGround Breaker
Los Angeles-based songwriter Patrick Park steps into the newground breaker spotlight this week. Blending classica songwriting stylings of Gram Parsons and Elliot Smith with a bell clear vocal approach, Patrick is currently the focus of a fierce major label bidding war. Hear an acoustic demo of his heartbreaker "Nothing's Wrong" on newground. |
