Songs that reward close listening — familiar at first, and deeper the longer you stay with them.
Vinegar Road
Vinegar Road is a collection of songs that feel both instantly familiar and quietly inventive. Drawing from the backroads of American music, each track unfolds like a well-worn map, opening onto melodies that reveal new contours the longer you travel with them.
At its heart is a lyrical landscape where words aren’t just sung, but whispered — stories of love, loss, regret, hope, and ambition woven together with a poetic restraint that lingers long after the music fades.
Looking Glass Planet
Looking Glass Planet expands the sonic world introduced on Vinegar Road, moving into more electric territory while keeping songcraft at the center. The sound leans further into alternative and psychedelic textures, but the lyrical focus remains intimate and searching.
The songs are layered and personal, reflective without losing their edge — familiar ground viewed from a new angle, revealing something different each time the light shifts.
Starlie Diamant works alone, recording with minimal equipment in an unfinished basement, handling every part of the process himself. There are no session musicians, no producer, no intermediary — just the slow work of shaping songs until they reveal what they’re meant to be.
Songcraft is the guiding light. A great song, stripped down or fully realized, carries its weight either way. His music rewards close listening — darkly serious, literate, sometimes soothing, sometimes challenging — unfolding and deepening the longer you spend with it.
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