“Given that she’s such a prolific collaborator, folk adventurer Meg Baird, you sense, sometimes forgets she has a solo career to uphold amid all her side projects. Furling is her first solo album since 2015’s Don’t Weigh Down the Light, and only her fourth in 16 years. Pleasingly, it’s well worth the long wait, in large part because the realisation of these songs feels more expansive than her earli”
“The album’s title refers to curling something up into a more compact shape; however, Furling – Meg Baird’s fourth record away from band projects – expands the sparser palette of the San Francisco-based singer and multi-instrumentalist’s previous solo outings, without ever shifting the spotlight away from Baird’s ethereal yet powerful voice. The heavy-lidded psych-folk of Espers (the Philadelphia ”
“Largely centered on the piano, the songwriter’s first solo album in eight years is wistful, heady, and mesmerizing.”
