(3/6/5) 023: Tasha - Michigan
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The last we heard from Chicago's Tasha she was learning to fall back in love with herself across her stunning second album Tell Me What You Miss The Most (2021). The follow-up to 2018's Alone At Last - both released on the excellent Father/Daughter Records - it was, once again, a showcase for Tasha's tender song-writing and truly exquisite voice that imbues all of her work with a graceful sense of enchantment.
Released yesterday, this time via a new home on Bayonet Records, 'Michigan' is, at present, a stand-alone single, and is an immediately-compelling return; the warm-blooded, loose-limbed nature of its offering at odds with the emotional turmoil that underlined its creation.
"In October of 2022 I took myself on a writing trip to a friend's house in Michigan," Tasha explains in the song's introduction. "The little dog I shared with my girlfriend at the time had just died, and the trip was both lonely and extremely creatively fulfilling. I wrote this song near the end of that trip, sitting on the deck, facing the trees and the sky, communing with the birds and other small wildlife," she continues. "This song is about the missing and the return; the reliable comfort of a sunset on a nice day, a friend to sit with, and the shining hope of more comfort to come. Don’t you feel pretty in this fading light?"
Leaping immediately into its three-minutes, the track is as buoyant as we've ever heard Tasha, the song tumbling forward with an almost Broadcast-esque wooziness. Where previous work has tended to be more sultry and restrained, a pink moon in a fading sky, 'Michigan' is both instant and lovably rugged, shining boldly with an unexpected gleam that redefines expectations of wherever Tasha chooses to go next.
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