In my case, I’m always on your side by being always on my laptop writing these analytical music posts on the blog every day! It’s finally time for your daily blog post!
Pictured: Cover Artwork for “See You Tomorrow” (Available on January 17th, 2020)
Good afternoon to you! Jacob Braybrooke is here with your daily musing on the blog! It’s a lovely piece of artwork you can see above here, which is the album cover art for “See You Tomorrow”, the new LP record from American indie folk band The Innocence Mission, which is helmed by Karen Peris and her husband Don Peris, with lifelong friend Mike Bitts as the Bass guitarist. I’ve only recently discovered this band and I played the song “On Your Side” on my radio show this week. The forthcoming album is actually the band’s eleventh full-length release, with the band having been producing music since their self-titled debut record was released just over 30 years ago – in 1989! The new album, “See You Tomorrow” comes out tomorrow, January 17th, coincidentally. This is the band’s second album release on the Bella Union indie music label. Why not take a look at the wonderfully hand-painted music video below?
A beautifally produced video to match a single equally as stunning, “On Your Side” is a rather lo-fi and sentimental slow-dance jive with a lust for shoegaze and dream-pop. Karen croons: “Some days we are not sure where we’re going/how we will arrive” and “Some days we don’t know where we have gone…But I’m always on your side” over a synth-glazed composition of simple bass guitar lines and an orchestral string-based arrangement. Karen continues to sing about dealing with the grief which comes from the loss of family and how those who have passed on remain alive in our hearts: “In my dream/I would be Paris with my mum/In cafe’s she would sip coffee/she would be smiling on”, before Karen lyrically expresses her ways of holding her chin up and never looking back: “Going on, Going on for a very long time”. The sound of the track is tantalizingly light and complements the soft and introspective lyricism very well. The acoustic-based guitar sounds and Karen’s angelic vocals make the writing very impactful, while the backdrop has a light and ethereal mood. This makes the lyrics feel discernibly powerful, while the quiet and classical sound creates a delicate fragility which emotionally manages to drive the overall package forward. Overall, this is a lovely track which highlights the beauty often found within the bleak.
Pictured: Karen Peris (Vocals/Guitar), Don Peris (Guitar) and Mike Bitts (Bass Guitar) (NPR Tiny Desk Concert 2018)
Thank you for reading this post! Tomorrow, I’ll be taking an in-depth look at another new track – this time from an English electronic dance trio – who were a regular collaborator alongside Maribou State for their latest record, “Kingdoms In Colour”, released in September 2018! If you really liked what you just read, why not follow the blog to get notified when every new daily post is up and why not like the Facebook page here?: https://www.facebook.com/OneTrackAtATime/
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