Painted Soup was quite the discovery for us. The band is self described as “music about flowers, and sometimes those flowers are also ghosts.” Seconds into listening to their track ‘Transit 1’, we found this description couldn’t suit more.

Transit 1 is a part of an autobiographical album written by Jacob Wolos, and a part of 3 song concept. Each song is a snapshot of a different feeling within a failing relationship. Transit 1 is backed by the sound of a flowing stream, with warm finger plucked guitar echoing along with dreamy vocals all blended together into a beautiful tapestry of sound that soothes you, but leaves you with a slight sense of unease. The track is truly something beautiful.

Painted soup is a long-time collaboration between artists Jacob Wolos, and Doug Lang. Growing up in a family of therapists, Jacob explores the underlying concepts of being, the why’s of being, and why we persist through so much difficulty. His writing is self described as “…seated somewhere between a semi-cogent argument of being and fever dream.”

If you’re in New York city, make sure to see Jacob Wolos’s music used with dance company 277 dance project this summer!

To listen in, head over to Painted Soup on Spotify and Instagram and bandcamp.