Songwriter and producer Heron knows how to make music that stays with you long after the last note. With his new single, "What If?" the latest offering from his upcoming album, "Underground Sky," he presents a track that's as intimately personal as it is unshakably universal. "What If?" draws listeners into a universe in which openness stands at the foreground. Heron's up-front vocals arrive like a hushed conversation in the dark, direct, searching, and human.
The harmonies tumble like embers dancing off a campfire, bearing existential questions that are practically timeless. What makes "What If?" exceptionally breathtaking is not just its sound depth but how it mirrors Heron's single-minded independence. A real DIY luminary, he wrote, performed, produced, and mixed the song entirely from his home studio. He didn't stop at that, though Heron directed and edited the music video as well as produced visual art to accompany the song, turning it into a complete narrative journey.
The result is art at its most elemental, authentic, unmediated, and utterly self-possessed. "What If?" plays like a meditation, a mirror, and an escape all at once. It is a song filled with pauses at the beginning, in the harmonic progression, and before different sets of enigmatic lyrics, an invitation to pause, think, sit, and ponder all that beautiful uncertainty. And in an age of confusion, where clarity can be hard to come by, Heron's new song comes as both a touching soundtrack and a needed accompaniment for the troubled soul.