"Standing In A Robe," the debut from Garrett Anthony Rice, opens like some slow-motion proper, the film is cinematic in scale but profoundly intimate at its heart. The song sets Rice up as an artist bold enough to cross over from personal heartbreak to our shared human inadequacies with a story that feels achingly intimate yet disturbing in its universality.
"Standing In A Robe" is a song about a relationship falling apart, the reason it feels so raw and personal, even detached from your own heartbreak, but its scope extends to question society's continued fascination with powerful people whose legacies are sinfully mixed. Through images that combine ceremonial robes with both sacrificial reverence and predatory deception, Rice weaves a deep commentary that still echoes long after the last note has faded.
The production is heavy in atmosphere, musically speaking. The message is heavily underscored by instrumentation and is marked by a haunting yet spiritual tension from an outside-recorded gospel choir. And it's audacious, it lifts "Standing In A Robe" to a newer, deeper, more intimate place. Rice tends to anchor it all with a vocal delivery that drifts along the line between grounded conviction and quiet intensity, balanced with openness.
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