Little Hollow

If you're scouring the Internet for information about Little Hollow, you'll have to content yourself with the two 90-second tracks recently posted on a brand new Bandcamp page. The web's a little more forgiving when it comes to information on the person—currently, the only person—responsible for Little Hollow, Mr. Logan Pate. However, he and his Grip Tapes label seem to be reticent to cough up details on that front as well.

Those that throw caution to the wind and give Pate's music a try without the aid of any a priori descriptors might jump to the wrong conclusions based on the cover art that adorn the handful of digitally available EPs he’s released under his own name. The repurposed photographs of a (presumably) baby-sized Pate wearing a cowboy outfit and adorned with hand-scrawled lettering for his The Difference Between Moths and Butterflies EP suggests that Pate is a singer/songwriter of the woe-is-me variety. The plucks of acoustic guitar that introduce "Let It Go" don't do much to remove that assumption. But Pate's woes are expressed in a more soulful and delicate manner than expected. When that pristine voice sits atop a drum machine beat (on "Give Thanks") or a piano-and-glockenspiel mix (on "Gemini"), it becomes pretty clear that Logan Pate is shooting for home-recorded R&B. So far, he's been hitting bulls eyes with his solo work, too, carrying himself with a creative confidence and swagger that contrasts the low-key nature of these releases.

Though there are now only three minutes of music available under the Little Hollow name, it's clear that Pate is someone to seek out, no matter the medium, the moniker or the absence of search-engine priming. —David Raposa