“Where The Light Breaks is not just an album -- it's a listening experience. This portfolio of songs invites the listener to reflect, remember, grieve, rejoice, and ultimately return to love.”
Where The Light Breaks
Debut Album
by New Artist Michael Ess
Released 8/11/2025 on 24 platforms!
Where The Light Breaks is a 17-track concept album that charts a passage from yearning and loss to confrontation, transformation, and unconditional love.
Featuring full-band progressive arrangements, rich harmonies, stripped-down guitar ballads, world instrumentation, and jazz-inspired blues instrumentals, the album is a genre-crossing odyssey. Themes of love, grief, societal fragmentation, spiritual reckoning, and personal healing unfold across shifting tempos and textures.
The title speaks to the idea that growth and grace emerge at the fracture points—where the light breaks through. Explore tracks here.
For fans of ...
Carbon Leaf
David Bowie
Florence + The Machine
Lord Huron
Lumineers
Peter Gabriel
Radiohead
Sarah McLaughlin
Reviews
Blogs
- Rolling Hype - LA, NYC Hip Hop news & entertainment
- Plastic Magazine - London indepependent music critic
- Revista Arte Brasileira - Brazilian arts and culture website
- Oleada Indie - emerging indie music from around the world
- ASPI Magazine - Phillipines, Anti-punk and Punk blogger.
Playlists
- Whiskey Trail & Country Tales - Mandala in Blue
- Revista Arte Brasileira - Mandala in Blue
- Oleada Indie - As Silence Steeps
- Accoustic Overnight - Never Said Goodbye
- Chill Rock Roadtrip - We Build Our Walls
- Rock This - Aphrodite Dancing
- Chill Rock Roadtrip - Aphrodite Dancing
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