Von Venn Makes Sense of Growing Up

Von Venn

Gary Cox’s second album under the Von Venn name landed on my desk at exactly the right moment. I’d been scrolling through news feeds feeling that familiar knot in my stomach, the one that comes from watching the world bend itself into increasingly absurd shapes. Then “Still Falling” came through my speakers and I thought, oh good, someone else gets it. “Forgetting the Fall” is the sound of someone who believed the adults had everything under control, then grew up and realized nobody really does. Cox doesn’t dress this up…