Wonderfully engaging eighth LP by New Orleans’ Alynda Segarra of “nature punk” electronica and lo-fi indie, with songs variously intimate, grand, sensual, and emotionally powerful, taking a hands-on, eco-aware vivid walk through our planet and channelling the spirit of Adrienne M. Brown’s Emergent Strategy: “Transform yourself to transform the world.” Highlights include previous Song of the Day Rhododendron, Pierced Arrows, the lovely melody and melancholy of Rosemary Tears, the stirring Wolves, Jupiter’s Dance, an energetic pop number dedicated to immigrant children and using the rhythms of the Puerto Rican music Segarra heard as a child as part of her family heritage. There’s also the excellent Woody Guthrie-inspired Precious Cargo, also about immigration with a variety of guest voices, and of course the slow but powerfully moving, folk-country-jazz piano number with added brass, title track, a love song with its tender, but of course deeply ironic refrain – “life on Earth is long”. Strong, profound and life-affirming. Out on Nonesuch Records.
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