Garrett Kato x Anna Vaus – “Saviour”
From Byron Bay, Garrett Kato teams up with Nashville’s Anna Vaus to bring us the delightful sounds of “Saviour,” a song about the kind of love that doesn’t try to fix someone.
We’ve been fans of Kato since “Sleeping on the Drive Home,” and we couldn’t wait to press the play button on “Saviour.” Doing so provides the ears with orchestral swells beneath a remarkably finger-plucked acoustic guitar. If a safe and peaceful escape was a mountain town, this would be the song they played as you entered the city limits.
Kato has been blessed with one of those voices that inspires folk singers to lean into emotion and resist the temptation of digital shortcuts. Quite honestly, it’s as if he’s just a couple of feet away from you, performing the track at some inner-city coffeehouse that has not yet been erased by a giant corporate chain.
And the magic that Anna Vaus adds to Kato’s vocal performance is nothing short of phenomenal. Her voice provides a heavenly harmony, a constant companion that emphasizes the song’s idea that life can change us in ways we don't choose.
Sometimes, the greatest gift we can offer someone is the freedom to fall apart without ever having to worry about being put back together. “Saviour” offers that kind of safety, reminding us that we don't have to hold ourselves together to be worthy of love.