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Sun Studies is a songwriting moniker featuring the wide-ranging baritone of Reid Johnson. Since the mid-2000s, Johnson has quietly accumulated a respected catalog with the band Schooner, as well as other projects. Sun Studies is a more intimate, sparse affair. Characters conveying false truths, current existential crises, and mental illness come to the forefront, carried by Johnson’s swooning voice and arresting melodies. "...spare, saturnine acoustic folk-rock bears along a striking vocal performance, heavily draped but surprisingly mobile. Johnson’s baritone has…