There is an aspect of memory that transcends the boundary of time. The scent of hardwood and spice, the give of earth beneath your boot as winter yawns, the temperature of a drink...these fragments coalesce the senses via a single feeling. Love.
On "Mary", the past hums behind soft keys, as Adrianne Lenker gracefully channels the gamut of experience into a surge of delicate minutia and grand emotion. Her careening lyrics brush visceral detail equally over each piece of specific recollection and fleeting impression, rebuilding a safe place from the past that houses the love for ourselves and others that we sometimes bury.
what did you tell me mary when you were there so sweet and very
full of field and stars you carried all of time
oh and heavens when you looked at me your eyes were like machinery
your hands were making artifacts in the corner of my mind
monastery monochrome boom balloon machine and oh
diamond rings and gutter bones marching up the mountain with our
aching planning high and smiling cheap drink dark and violent full of
tenderness the sweet asylum the clay you find is fortified we felt
the sugar rush the constant hush the pushing of the water gush
the marching band when april ran may june bugs fly and push
your old gin jacob with the tired wirey brandy look
here we go round mary in your famous story book
Big Thief will release their new album Capacity June 9 via Saddle Creek.
