The Midnight Cartographer Digs Up the Past on 'Words'
Damir Kljakovic takes an acoustic demo written back in high school and thickens the blood with heavy, downtuned guitars.
By 40MAG ·
Croatian songwriter Damir Kljakovic sat on these lines for over twenty years, having originally sketched them out on an acoustic guitar back in the early 2000s when he did not have the gear to back them up. Now operating as The Midnight Cartographer, he drags 'Words' into the open, ditching clean balladry for heavy low-end thud and thick guitar walls.
His dry baritone vocal take sits right in front of the speakers, rehashing the sharp end of a breakup without any glossy vocal tricks or radio-friendly sheen. The beat drags its feet on purpose, giving the cold pads and jagged guitar chords plenty of room to settle like dust in an empty bedroom.
