The new solo venture of Langkamer‘s Josh Jarman, Classic Trucks is a project built upon a desire to push creative sensibilities beyond their comfort zone. Known primarily as a drummer and vocalist, Jarman pushed himself to learn to play guitar, and soon embracing challenge became an inherent part of the process. “Classic Trucks is a new venture for me, trying to explore different elements of songwriting that until now I’ve marvelled at from a distance—like some sort of reverent sorcery that I always assumed was outside of my reach,” Jarman explains. “Music is still a glorious mystery to me, but I’m enjoying trying to figure out the puzzle.”
With an EP set for release in the near future via Breakfast Records, Jarman has shared the debut Classic Trucks single ‘Letting In Too Much Light’. Drawing on heroes of the genre like Bill Callahan, Jason Molina and Mark Linkous, the track pairs a rich, warm sound with Jarman’s approachable, near-spoken vocals and a dark, distressed lyrical style. But instead of playing as a contradiction, the resulting track looks to solve the concern at its heart in real time, fashioning a cure to the complaint itself. Because while Jarman speaks as an anxious subject stuck within an overwhelming world, he does so with a tone of buoyant empathy, as though the distance allowed by songwriting weakens the hold of trauma and stress.