PREMIERE: Tender Mercy – “The War Within”

Tender Mercy is the recording and performing moniker of Louisville-based singer-songwriter Mark Kramer. With Tender Mercy, Kramer creates a minimalist brand of folk with reverb-drenched atmospherics and thoughtful, engaging and poetic lyrics that blur the lines of slowcore and folk rock.  His latest album, War Within, is out this Thursday on Louisville label, Obsolete Staircases. 

Atlas and the Anchor is proud to present the quasi-title track to the album here today.  Listen to “The War Within” below, with its deft use of stark space and ethereal emotion that captures the intensity of his inner struggles.  The soft, sparse ambient folk Kramer crafts is like a warm yet scratchy blanket that will put you at ease and unsettle you; but you will come back for more, for the way it makes you feel.          

For more info: www.tendermercymusic.com

"The War Within":