Liverpool-based singer-songwriter Mikey Gormley‘s track, ‘Shelter the Cold’ is an eerily beautiful acoustic number with an element of poetry, that sounds like a fairytale story set to a folk sound, a dark fantasy tale of aching despair. Having already released an album on iTunes in the summer of 2014 and played on such stages as the Sugarmill in Stoke and the Cavern Club in Liverpool, it may already be fair to say that Gormley is on the same path that a certain Scouse rock quartet with upside-down bowl haircuts once started off on.
The track’s folk-based sound coupled with both Gormley and Nesset’s haunting, tender vocals make for a chilling tune, drawing similarities to the other indie-based likes of Bon Iver and Sufjan Stevens. The two voices meld into one another and overlap gracefully over the acoustic guitar, intertwining to create an ethereal, celestial feel. The song’s last lingering lyrics, “When winter arrives, there’s no one to shelter the cold…” echo long after the final chord is struck.
Words by Cady Siregar