Album Review: Liv Greene, ‘Deep Feeler’
Liv Greene’s songs on her sophomore album, Deep Feeler, display a casual elegance, enveloping listeners in a capacious warmth and inviting them to dwell in their own deep feelings about love, loss, expectation, and hope.
The album opens quietly and sedately with the title track, featuring ringing guitar strums and a rhythmic beat that mimics the actions of moving on from taking the risk of feeling too deeply. Mike Robinson’s spiraling layers of pedal steel capture the ache of enduring moments of melancholic regret laced with sustaining glimpses of self-realization. Robinson’s steel also provides the foundation on “Made It Mine Too,” a minor chord lament about discovering that the initial joy of being so entwined with another that you carry each other’s burdens and hopes eventually crumbles into disappointment.
The upbeat “Flowers” blossoms with the promise of freedom and new directions, while Elise Leavy’s sparkling accordion, Christian Sedelmyer’s lilting fiddle, and Greene’s spiraling vocals capture the tender feelings of embracing a new love in “Katie.”
The country rambler “I Got My Work to Do,” fueled by Sarah Jarosz’s crisp mandolin work and multiple scampering guitars riffs, rolls along the road of being free to be oneself while still recognizing one’s flaws. The album closes with a spare arrangement of “I Can Be Grateful”; Greene’s vocals float over her acoustic guitar strums on this plainspoken ode to the two-sided nature of loving and losing: “I can be grateful, and still mad/I can be happy and oh so sad…/that I can’t be yours anymore.”
On Deep Feeler, Greene’s spellbinding vocals are reminiscent of both Joni Mitchell and Shawn Colvin: graceful, flexible, and a little bit earthy, too. Throughout the album, Greene ponders the ways that embracing a range of emotions can be both damaging and exhilarating; her singing and songwriting reach her listeners in the depths of their hearts.
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