Biography
Born in California during the early 1970s, Jacob Golden absorbed pop radio as a child before hip-hop broadened his listening, an eclectic path that ultimately converged on Jeff Buckley and, via Buckley's reading of "Lilac Wine," Nina Simone. "Nina is the master of expressing a sad song," Golden observes, adding that his own aim centers on "capturing the most emotional and real and genuine thing. Not about technically, was that a good vocal?" David Kosten of Faultline, who helmed the debut EP Jacob Golden, steered the singer toward raw emotional core over sonic perfection. Yet Golden's soaring falsetto remains meticulously controlled rather than ragged. It transmits successive strata of unfiltered feeling while refusing to smooth over passages that feel tangled or unsettling. Capable of shifting in an instant from lush serenity to harsh, wailing intensity, his style draws on elements traceable to Talk Talk, Metallica, Grandmaster Flash, and Jeff Buckley.
Albums
Singles
