There’s something instantly cinematic about ‘Weight of The Hours ‘ like stepping into the opening scene of a film you didn’t know you were starring in. This track marks a bold new chapter for Justin Levinson, now reinventing himself as JX Levinson after years of making power-pop and singer-songwriter records. Instead of leaning on lyrics, he’s stripped everything down to pure sound, and somehow, it hits even harder.
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Built from piano sketches that once lived quietly in his voice memos, Weight of The Hours swells into a fully orchestrated soundscape co-produced with Nathaniel Wolkstein. Strings glide in like passing weather, rising and falling as if pulled by invisible tides, while the piano anchors everything with a soft but persistent gravity. It’s elegant, but never static, there’s movement in every phrase, a subtle push and pull between restraint and release.
What’s striking is how Levinson makes silence feel like part of the composition. There are pauses where you almost hold your breath, as if the music is thinking through its own emotions before daring to speak again. It’s that tension, the slow burn of time passing, of hours carrying weight, that gives the piece its name and emotional pull.
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Listening feels like walking through the ruins of an old memory: light cutting through dust, shadows pooling in corners, the sense that something important happened here even if you can’t put it into words. And maybe that’s the point. Sans Paroles translates to “without words,” and Weight of The Hours makes a strong argument that sometimes language just gets in the way.
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