Following the release of Pete Yorn’s 11th studio album, All The Beauty, comes a gorgeous acoustic recording of the project’s title track. On “All The Beauty (Acoustic Version)”, the electric guitar and anthemic drum beats from the original fall away, revealing a more pondering character than its propulsive predecessor, letting Yorn’s introspective lyrics about seeing the beauty and the suffering that surrounds us all. The original is reminiscent of a summertime drive along the coast of Northern California with the windows down, while the new version is like the cozy gift of rain on a September morning. The song also captures the energy of Yorn’s solo acoustic tours.

As for the album, All The Beauty is a revelatory meditation on growth, change, and the passage of time as the artist learns to find peace in appreciating the present moment. The result is a radiant surrender to the power of love and gratitude, even in hard times. The album completes the trilogy with a luminous, deeply perceptive mix of cathartic rockers and late-night ruminations. Yorn’s writing is at once direct and abstract here, often addressed to himself but riddled with piercing, existential questions and his delivery is probing to match, urgent and insistent as it explores the open wounds of doubt, longing, and regret in a search for genuine human connection.

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