There’s just too much going in Daniel Blumberg’s career that can distract us from what really matters when discussing his music, and that’s why we will leave that out of this conversation and look into what his present has been enabling him to create: deeply moving songs that draw as much from simplistic pop motifs, thought-out and expressionist like melodic decisions, and detailed contemporary arrangements. Altogether, these sparse elements comprised his most recent GUT LP, a set of musical pieces where voice, piano, strings and some details of percussion expand the possibilities of ballads into greater, more impactful and sensorial experiences. We are not sure we are ready to host Blumberg in his most earnest form to date, but we know we cannot wait to put our own sensibilities to the test.