TRCK OF THE WEEK: Shirebound and Busking - A Million Little Things

Iego Tan aka Shirebound & Busking’s winsome ‘hugot’ and quirky lyrics caught us by the year since he dropped his classic single Waltz of Four Left Feet three years ago. Ever since we still find the guy playing in small bar gigs and in local music fests. The busker continues to release tracks from time to time in his semi-mystic Facebook page and Soundcloud account. The only track he has released thus far was “Pahintulot”, and that was around summer of 2016 and it later on it was included in the I Love, I'm Drunk Soundtrack the next year.

Out of the blue, Shirebound & Busking has announced a show that’ll launch his single “A Million Little Things” at Route 196. last January 20, 2018. The single was a re-release to be specific because the artist released the same track three years ago but this time the track sounds more refined and sounds less like one of your cliched har-har singers and 'hugoteros' plucking their guitar strings while wearing their hawaiian t-shirts and having their hair slicked back.

“A Million Little Things” starts really subtle with Shirebound singing about wanting to tell how he honestly feels about his partner. Then the string section comes in and it somehow compliments the tender side of the entire track. The other side shows Shirebound desperately wanting to tell this person but we’ll never know when he’ll say it.

Overall, the track doesn’t feel overly sentimental. This is the type of folk-pop I would want to hear everyday. What got the most here is this genuine feeling of the singer was being brought up naturally and not being this lazily written you-said-I-said story. Shirebound & Busking consistently releases songs like no other busker does. And I can tell you a million little things why this fellow busker has a heart made a gold.

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