Sensitive, quirky, melancholy, intimate, candid, and wonderfully beautiful folk-pop by the Portland singer-songwriter dappled with acoustic instruments and arresting lines is her 12th, but first LP after splitting from her husband and longtime producer Tucker Martine. Standouts include previous Song of the Day Seaside Haiku, the fast but gentle electro beats on Eucalyptus that capture a heart-racing heartbreak, the more indie-rock Winter Windows, the acoustic guitar opener Autumn Song with her own vocal echo call-and-response, the vivid image of a coil of smoke on Signal, lovely woodwind and sax on Naked Hymn which expresses sexual intimacy, and brass on Komorebi which unfolds exquisitely, Time Will Show You’s tragic retrospective images and intertwining violins, T&O’s emotional ode to her sons she calls “the sunbeams of the house”, and the almost whispered Sword Song in which a weapon can become a flower. An album that grows up into the light out of dark, personal experience into something sensitively superb. Out on Bella Union.
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