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Coming off the release of his haunting debut solo album, <a href="spotify:album:4WgWeF1d7XmvPb8sAiINT2" data-name="Brown Recluse">Brown Recluse</a>, in November 2021 and <a href="spotify:artist:5SBfHAZp6mdwmgaUOKVu2I" data-name="Lake Nakoma">Lake Nakoma</a>, a collaborative project between Woltmann and Heath Fogg (of the <a href="spotify:artist:16GcWuvvybAoaHr0NqT8Eh" data-name="Alabama Shakes">Alabama Shakes</a>) that was released via Single Lock Records in May 2023, Woltmann has returned to his solo work with the announcement of his upcoming EP A Case Of the Times. “<a href="spotify:album:7cd2Kkt97XQKslGulZONPL" data-name="The In-Betweens">The In-Betweens</a>", the first single off of the new EP was released on 12/1/2023, and he has just shared the follow-up single, “Saw You In A Dream” to be released 4/12/2023.
Woltmann’s songwriting possesses the soft sentimental fury of <a href="spotify:artist:2ApaG60P4r0yhBoDCGD8YG" data-name="Elliott Smith">Elliott Smith</a> with the hazy melancholy and poetic introspection of artists like <a href="spotify:artist:5c3GLXai8YOMid29ZEuR9y" data-name="Nick Drake">Nick Drake</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:6xrCU6zdcSTsG2hLrojpmI" data-name="José González">José González</a>. Soothing melodies and raw lyrics paint vivid images that draw you into his introspective world.
“<a href="spotify:album:7cd2Kkt97XQKslGulZONPL" data-name="The In-Betweens">The In-Betweens</a>, released end of last year was met with high praise. Jeremy Bregman of Mesmerized said, “I have fallen completely in love with Colin’s latest release. It’s one of the most beautiful and delicate tracks I’ve came across all year.” While Mike Mineo of Obscure Sound described the single as “a beautiful folk track with evolving textural expansion” and called it a “fantastic output from Woltmann.” Dave Franklin of The Big Takeover notes that “the song feels too fragile, too graceful for the real world and instead seems to exist in an otherworldly bubble floating high above the slings and arrows of this mortal coil.”
Woltmann’s songwriting possesses the soft sentimental fury of <a href="spotify:artist:2ApaG60P4r0yhBoDCGD8YG" data-name="Elliott Smith">Elliott Smith</a> with the hazy melancholy and poetic introspection of artists like <a href="spotify:artist:5c3GLXai8YOMid29ZEuR9y" data-name="Nick Drake">Nick Drake</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:6xrCU6zdcSTsG2hLrojpmI" data-name="José González">José González</a>. Soothing melodies and raw lyrics paint vivid images that draw you into his introspective world.
“<a href="spotify:album:7cd2Kkt97XQKslGulZONPL" data-name="The In-Betweens">The In-Betweens</a>, released end of last year was met with high praise. Jeremy Bregman of Mesmerized said, “I have fallen completely in love with Colin’s latest release. It’s one of the most beautiful and delicate tracks I’ve came across all year.” While Mike Mineo of Obscure Sound described the single as “a beautiful folk track with evolving textural expansion” and called it a “fantastic output from Woltmann.” Dave Franklin of The Big Takeover notes that “the song feels too fragile, too graceful for the real world and instead seems to exist in an otherworldly bubble floating high above the slings and arrows of this mortal coil.”