084: Little Moon - now
Growing up in a half-Peruvian, half-white working-class Mormon family, Emma Hardyman always felt somewhat out-of-step with the world around her. Like many of us who feel untethered, she found comfort and escape in art and music. This journey has taken her - via many twists and turns - to Little Moon, the unabashed, eminently colourful musical project Hardyman uses as an "outlet to illuminate, intertwine and contort contradictions of all kinds."
A brand new album, Dear Divine, is released later this year via the excellent Joyful Noise label, and follows on from her 2020 debut. Making good on these previously noted assertions, lead track 'now' does its best to illuminate and contort, painting bright swathes of bold light into shapes we recognise and often a few we don't.
Beautifully singular, the instrumental backdrop is both wild and wise, in fact across the full record, Hardyman is joined by, wait for it: bowed banjo, horns, organ, melodica, clarinet, toy piano, bass clarinet, harp, violin, trombone and a choir.
On top of the that, Hardyman's voice is itself a thing of gutsy splendour; hearty, romantic, it prowls across the new song's near five-minutes with the kind of oddness that feels, well, if not divine then certainly bewitching, right down to the marrow of that word.
Dear Divine LP is released October 25, via Joyful Noise
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