Furling is Meg Baird's latest album for Drag City Records and is a hushed thing of beauty from this member of Espers.
The album opens with the funereal Ashes, Ashes slowly marching across the speakers to the sound of the piano and angels whispering through the cracks in the walls. Slowly unfurling over 6 minutes a fond farewell.
The albums second single Star Hill Song fades in gently as Meg's crystalline vocals float through the air, shimmering guitars float by, wrapped in a warm cocoon like feeling, almost acoustic Mazzy Star like, but with very different cadences, strings swirling filling the room, as you wonder what never crossed Meg's mind, about what happened in Star Hill, the impressionistic video may help.
Ship Captains hear the siren voices of the sea, emerging from the carefully strummed acoustic guitar and piano backing, as they try to safely steer towards a calm and loving harbor.
Cross Bay a gently evocative song as the light shines, revealing the beauty at this song's heart whose strings are carefully plucked assurances, help you to feel ok.
Twelve Saints who may or may not be the same as the twelve apostles, emerge from the wondrous elegiac music, to weave the saintly magic spinning spells, with this floaty laid-back backing as Meg's angelic vocals whisper her own beatitudes.
Unnamed Drives contain all sorts of late-night secrets, contained deep within the slowly meandering river, snatches of images of past occurrences, half remembered half recalled.
The Saddest Verses is full of the sorrow of the last few years, pain regret, unsolved miseries echoing from talking drums, acoustic strums, sepulchral words emanating out, trying to elicit comfort.
Will You Follow Me Home? Is spry uplifting in its asking of that question, as you may well ask her what you'll find at her home if you should follow her there, is this an invite or is she worried you're a stalker, an unwelcome presence, well after a few listens you may have the correct answer.
Wreathing Days is one final sad lament as you make one more funeral wreath and say one more fond farewell to a lost loved one, the piano taking the pain and sorrow away.
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