free music friday: caroline weeks
‘Elegy’
A veteran of more than one incarnation of the Bat For Lashes backing band since the very beginning, Caroline Weeks has kept things nice and simple on her debut solo album Songs For Edna, released through Manimal Vinyl in the US on March 17th. Abandoning her former stage name Ginger Lee after a Google search pulled up multiple nudie shots of the infamous porn star, Caroline’s music is equally as stripped as her erstwhile accidental namesake. With a nod to the lo-fi alt-folk of Little Life-era Josephine Foster, Songs For Edna adds fingerpicked Spanish guitar motifs and subtle washes of clarinet and piano to Caroline’s simple, unadorned phrasing, sweetly lulling and cajoling the brain into a hazy state of bliss. The Edna of the title refers to Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Edna St. Vincent Millay, literary queen of bohemian Greenwich Village in the 1920s, whose poems make up the lyrical side of the album’s nine songs. ‘Elegy’ sees the album take its seductively ethereal bow, sauntering dreamily along towards a final flourish of chimes.
Songs For Edna
01 See Where Capella & Her Golden Kids
02 What Lips My Lips Have Kissed
03 Wild Swans
04 Renascence
05 Oh, Sleep Forever In The Latmian Cave
06 The Return
07 Pity Me Not
08 I Shall Go Back
09 Elegy
FREE MP3: Caroline Weeks, ‘Elegy’
Written by: Alan Pedder
Tags: bat for lashes, caroline weeks, songs for edna
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