Hadnot Creek's "Leaving": A Haunting Alt-Country Exploration of Loss and Longing Album

This was pulled from the heart of Charlottesville, Virginia. Hadnot Creek's "Leaving" is an alt-country journey with 10 tracks stitching the raw poetry of R. Sawrey's voice, with the populist American pronouncements, between measure and memory. Hadnot Creek has been influenced by luminaries as far-ranging as Tom Waits, Lucinda Williams, and David Berman. In this collection, Sawrey offers a tender confrontation with isolation, memory, and the act of connection, which unravels slowly. 

Sawrey's gravel-toned vocals and shadowy lyricism are at the center of "Leaving", in an evocation of a haunted Southern gothic reality, as the ghosts of now faded pictures, misplaced promises, and flickering neon lights move around the music. The album opens with "I Don't Love This World Anymore", to establish a tone of weary lucidity; then it plunges into "It's An Impossible World" and "I'm An Old Submariner" with its depths upholstered with lap steel wails and spare organ lines.

Musically speaking, the album pulls from dusty acoustic strums and is highlighted by electric grit played by Ben Laderberg, among others, including Zach Samel, Colin Lagenus, etc. 

Tracks such as “Latter Day Dude” and “Don’t Poke the Sleeping Bear” provide ironic moments of surrealism, and the final track, “We All Walk Alone,” finishes with a whisper of fragile hope. “Leaving” was recorded with close attention, coolly mixed by Zach Samel, and expertly mastered by Patrick Klem. “Leaving” is not an album; it is a landscape of longing. 

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