Stereo Embers The Podcast 0141: Dylan Hartigan

“That’s The Way My Bones Creak”

That’s how Dylan Hartigan describes the thematic balance of darkness and light in his work. And though that’s a fair appraisal of his creative process, that creak of his produces some of the most sonorous, achingly lovely and deeply stirring music you’ll hear all year. The New Jersey-born singer/songwriter talks to Alex about the early discipline of his child actor youth, how he found his voice and the rigors of what was ultimately an essential creative double pivot that found him leaving music only to come back to it reinvigorated and revived. He also talks about the existential dilemma of new relationships, why teachers never liked him and the simple joyful memory of seeing his father come home from work at 9pm and pick up the guitar. Hartigan’s marvelous debut solo album will be out this fall….