Beautiful Touch
There is ethereal music as on the wordless vocal of opener Ashes, Ashes where piano and drum beat out a background mantra. When there is folk singing as on Star Hill Song, it too is ethereal but in the gorgeous rather than ghostly sense, and these two beginnings set a prettiness for all to follow. Beautiful harmonies soothe with the unfurling of more sweetness on third Ship Captains, and fourth Cross Bay has sublime acoustic guitar reminding of an era long before that Meg Baird continues to honour with her musically nostalgic continuance – on this track especially, and through the vocal, an echo of early Joni Mitchell. The rest is more touching the touchstones.
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