143: Clara Mann - Remember Me (Train Song)

I've had the longest few days. Packing up a home and starting a new one, with different rooms and different views, emptinesses to get used to. You lose yourself in that movement, a swirling mess of packing and unpacking, phone calls and masking tape, dusts above and beyond.

In the middle of it all I needed a moment and found it within Clara Mann's – quiet, gentle – astonishing mew album, Rift. Now fully shared with the world, courtesy of last week's full release, it's a small marvel, a delicate unraveling of voice, heavy heart, splintered tongue.

In its wafer-thin layers it gathers numerous reference points from the English folk scene of years passed, but it also always carries a touch of the new, a kind of hardening that could have only come from being alive over the past few years, falling in and out of these lopsided days we keep finding, one in front of the other.

Each and every song here carries some kind of magic, dark or glimmering, but Remember Me hit a little harder this weekend, holding me in place between the old and new, as a sweet sour song is so likely to do.

Rift is out now and available via Bandcamp

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