“Put It Behind Me” is a resonating folk track from Jacksonville-based artist Kevin Driscoll, who explores with honest intensity the difficult departure from a significant relationship. This track showcases his ability to craft meaningful and poignant lyricism, capturing a raw emotional transition through layered acoustics, strings, and piano with a deeply personal resonance.

Trickling acoustic guitars pair with Driscoll’s solemnly introspective vocal presence, tonally subdued while still emitting a strong emotive power. The sporadic additions of strings lend a caressing, warming quality, emerging intermittently throughout, as do lovely touches of piano. Lyrically, Driscoll traces the journey of letting go, particularly in regard to a relationship with someone you still care about. Strings enter gently in the title-touting hopefulness, followed by an “it’s been years since I left, and I can’t help but reminisce” retrospection.

“Looking back I also see, all the stress and the arguments,” Driscoll’s vocals continue with more clarity, coming to terms that “what we once had is gone.” The lyricism captivates in progressing like a reflection of grieving the demise of something previously great — initially recalling just the fond memories, and then moving forward into the somber moments as well, culminating in a larger picture that bolsters the original decision to depart. “As the fog begins to clear,” the concluding section begins, representing that cathartic self-discovery when one moves on, without bitterness or regret. “Put It Behind Me” is an affecting success from Kevin Driscoll.

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The track is also featured in the genre-based, best-of Spotify compilation Emerging Indie Folk.

We discovered this release via MusoSoup.

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