Sweet Nothings is the third official album from Bomethius—alias Jonathan Hodges, presently from Dallas. A multi-instrumentalist who completed a degree in violin performance last year at Southern Methodist University, he produced nearly every sound you’ll hear in these recordings himself…

Bomethius’s Intimatitudes offers a complex, compelling, and sometimes jarringly contradictory take on themes long sustained by the singer-songwriter tradition, especially the (im)possibility and value of romantic and familial love. “Empty Promises,” the opening track, aptly sets the tone for this…