Retrospective Riff #10: Hollow Hour

Today on our Retrospective Riff adventure, coming in to close this run out at number 10, it's Hollow Hour by Ariel Posen.

For my final entry in this retrospective journey I somewhat paradoxically wanted to look both to the present and to the future. While he made his mark in other bands, Ariel's 2019 solo album How Long may be, to me, the epitome of songwriting meets guitar playing. He is able to casually and confidently display all of the awesome harmonic and tonal content that I've fallen in love with as a guitarist while never losing sight of what it means to write a great song. Hollow Hour is no exception and is a beautifully somber interlude that is equal parts soulful and haunting.

Bonus factoid: I was fortunate enough to have a brief hang with Ariel before the floor opened at NAMM 2019 and he was one of the coolest dudes I met all weekend, and his playing at Keeley booth, in the middle of all that noise, was inspired.

For the gear nerds:
The guitar is a Select-Custom Balaguer Woodman baritone loaded with the Truenobucker humbucker set and this track was recorded with the Victory Sheriff 22 into a Two Note Captor X with a the Victory 4x12 cab IR. Tremolo is coming from the Supro 1310 Tremolo and reverb is a Catalinbread Talisman.