Rui Gabriel - Compassion (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

The inviting and perceptive songs on Rui Gabriel’s debut LP Compassion all tackle growing up. It’s about how the older you get, your priorities shift, friendships evolve, and responsibilities become inescapable. For Gabriel, the Indiana-based, Venezuela-born artist and co-founder of the acclaimed band Lawn, the changes in his own life inspired him to write a solo full-length that sounds like nothing the indie rock journeyman has done before. Across 10 vibrant tracks that combine ethereal pop with slacker-rock and piano-driven dance music, it’s a galvanizing showcase of personal growth and the grace you give yourself to push forward.

Work on Compassion started in 2018 when Gabriel was living in New Orleans. “I was living a pretty teenage life in many ways,” says Gabriel. “I worked at a pizza restaurant and would just go to shows or parties. I wasn’t doing anything other than music. I didn't have many responsibilities.” The songs he was working on at the time—tracks that didn’t fit Lawn but Gabriel still liked—initially went unfinished. But as Gabriel’s life changed, so did his songwriting and his desire to see his ideas through. “When I was writing lyrics, I was settling down with my partner and about to become a dad,” says Gabriel. “I was making choices about my life that contradicted the existence I had before. I had a different set of priorities.”

TRACKLIST

1. Rui Gabriel - Dreamy Boys
2. Rui Gabriel - Target
3. Rui Gabriel - Church Of Nashville
4. Rui Gabriel - Hunting Knife
5. Rui Gabriel - Summertime Tiger
6. Rui Gabriel - If You Want It
7. Rui Gabriel - Change Your Mind
8. Rui Gabriel - Eyes Only
9. Rui Gabriel - End Of My Rope
10. Rui Gabriel - Money



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