Legend tells us that, eons ago in the Age of Sepia, a journeyman musician named Delta Will walked out onto a Mississippi crossroads at midnight and flagged down a passing spaceship. In exchange for his soul, the aliens granted Delta Will the ability to play the blues – their brand of it – and their knowledge of plastic bubblewrap.

In modern times, Delta Will has made periodic returns to Earth, sometimes borrowing the body of Parks & Rec frontman Charles Tilden, to observe our lives through gold-framed glasses. He described his first EP, Transcendental Visits, as “my first attempt to record my thoughts about life here on Earth. How time seems to flow rapidly and then slowly. How people lust and fall in, then out of love. Everyone’s constant search for meaning. The strong gravitational force that doesn’t allow people to bounce about, and the way everything is wrapped in plastic.”

With “Game Change Parade,” Delta Will explains the seasons of life while working his way down a row of cotton, reaching the edge of the field only to turn around and start over again on the next row.

In “Good Will” we learn, in the accessible form of a pop song, that love will come in time. But we must lose our clocks in order to feel time’s flow.

Delta Will’s next communication, It All Glows, is scheduled for reception October 22.  If the title track is an indication, Delta Will has taken a liking to Earth. We hope that the glow he perceives is sunshine and not the fluorescent detritus of our irradiated post-apocalyptic remains.

Delta Will’s transmissions are available on iTunes, Amazon, and Bandcamp.

Bonus Video: Wearing a tinfoil hat is a well-accepted method for blocking alien mind-control rays. But hiding in the bathtub is totally ineffective. They will find you.