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a post-disappearance release from a #mother of the singer-songwriter genre about love, the self, and life’s silly happenings. a mysterious and powerful artist with a penchant for humor and sadness, and the writer of one of the most relatable quotes i’ve ever heard: “human society fascinates me & awes me & fills me with grief & joy; i just can't find my place to plug into it.”
highlights: talkin like you (two tall mountains), man in the sky, there is a vine, i have considered the lillies
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I recently stumbled upon this wonderful woman's work via Spotify and I was very intrigued by the editing of her song I Have Considered the Lillies. The song seemed unexpectedly modern because there was a snippet of her speaking to other people in the room with her before she started playing the guitar and singing along. Because of this, I got curious and scrolled to her bio to see that apparently she went missing in her 40's, never to be found again. In a note she left tucked behind her filing cabinet before she left, she wrote, "let me go, let me be if I can, let me not be if I can't."
Her music lets us in on a glimpse behind a woman who felt so deeply, and despite her not finding the success she wanted in her time, I am happy to say that now in the heyday of confessional singer-songwriter music, her music has found a stage wherein the fiercely honest, tender, and vulnerable lyrics she wrote can at long last be appreciated as it always should have been.
I hope she found a life she loved, in the end. I hope she loved and wrote and lived the life fitting for a soul so beautiful.
Oct 30, 2024
It's haunting and melancholy but very passionately performed. If you like Christine and the Queens, Holly Humberstone, or Holly Herndon for that matter, you'll dig this probably (but put through a Celtic filter). Came out in April and I keep returning to it. Especially "Life of the Forbidden," "Wee Rosebud," "Into This, Called Lonliness," and the closing track "S.O.S. Song of the Sword" is VERY on the Kate Bush tip.
Jul 12, 2024
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There’s a limited selection of poets that can move me to tears without even reading through their stanzas but allowing the recollection of their words to pass over my mind — the aforementioned Bachmann is one of the real ones, T.S. Eliot is another; Elizabeth Barrett Browning, on occasion; sometimes-too Hölderlin, Herbert, Hadewijch; at least one Donne piece has this power, at least one Brecht; perhaps-too I would add cuttings of Young’s Literal Translation of the Holy Bible — contemporarily, the lines of Paris Reid, an absolutely gorgeous young Canadian I discovered several years ago (her first published prose piece can be found in the most recent Heavy Traffic) certainly effect this movement upon me time and again … who else? — well, the only other living writer to fall on this list, and quite honestly my most exalted favourite of all-above, should be obvious to anyone who knows me … yes, yes, of course: singer slash poet slash emotional-genius Lana del Rey, my personal saint and hero … truly, her words either brought to sound or put to page surpass the Scripture to me and this I would not say if I did not mean it violently. She has held aloft my life: she is probably the third factor to my continuance. You know — as I type this — I can hear the lyrics to Venice Bitch, perhaps the greatest lyrical song ever written (though a strong case could too be made for Video Games!) echoing within and my vision swims — so overcome with emotion am I! Good God. My friends, it’s unbelievable. And everything she does is fantastic, of course, but lately I have been really been spiralling about in her demos and bootlegs and regional exclusives dating around the release of Ultraviolence, her third studio album. Pray listen; I’ll leave you with this. Say Yes To Heaven: breaks my heart. Fine China: breaks my heart. I Talk to Jesus: well, you know, onward and onward, from here to eternity…
May 10, 2023
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