The story telling chops of Bruce Springsteen and complex simplicity of Tom Petty, yet still cut out of a modern edge of one of the many next generation of songwriting wave-makers like Josh Ritter or Brett Dennen

Bang On Time is a children’s game. It’s commonly used as a learning tool for helping kids to tell time. The game works as follows: “Read the time in words and then stop the clock when the hands are in the matching position.” I’ve always been stuck on this idea of killing time. Not in a nothing-to-do type of way, but in a, I wish I had more time type of way. These minutes move so arbitrarily. I never feel like I exist anywhere in the present. We live in constant motion and more often than not, we’re not moving at all. The collection of songs on this record, I hold very close. They are songs that are so enmeshed in the last year of my life that I feel exposed when I hear them back. Bang On Time is stripped down, lyrically driven, and thematically rooted in ideas of love, transition, and cyclicality.

lo-fi/19th century fiction themed story telling

Fortier has crafted an album ripe with the sort of folk honesty that rarely rises into the veins of today’s popular music, but replete with rock and roll underpinnings that give the 12-track disc a distinctly modern and timely feel.

Earnest and introspective Americana music, with evident classic rock, blues, and even punk influences, crafting an eclectic mix of songs.