Album Review: Anna B Savage, ‘You and I are Earth’
The title of Anna B Savage’s third album, You and I are Earth, conveys powerfully the ways the entangled roots of humankind and nature work together. The ten songs on the album offer little portraits of the ways that the beauty of wild places animates our souls and enlivens our own expressions of love for others.
“Talk to Me,” the album’s first track, opens with the sounds of the sea rushing to the shore, ushering in cascading guitar finger-picking and shimmering strings that float under Savage’s tender love letter to a partner and to the natural world. Sounds of the seaside once again introduce “Lighthouse,” a languorously unfolding paean, swelling with sensuous harmonies, to a lover who shines in the darkness and who offers the singer a guide to her home in his arms.
Cantering tempo drives the twirling Celtic rhythms of “Donegal,” Savage’s ode to her home in County Donegal, while the softly unfolding “Mo Cheol Thú” sings of the impossibility of translating the Celtic phrase for “I love you,” since translating the phrase fails to capture the ways that the sound of a heart beating weaves it tendrils around another’s heart. The haunting instrumental interlude “Incertus,” replete with its interplay of strings and guitars, carries listeners into the Joni Mitchell-esque “I Reach for You in My Sleep,” a dreamscape of spiraling harmonies and lush instrumentation that evokes the vulnerability and promise of love. On the softly circling title track, Savage captures the rhythms of the natural world and the ways that such undulations flow into and energize human relationships.
On You and I are Earth, Anna B Savage weaves her gentle, earthy vocals around and over warm instrumental backdrops to create lush, organically intimate soundscapes celebrating land and love.
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