Cate Kennan - Shadows - VINYL LP

Los Angeles musician Cate Kennan's self produced second full length unfolds with the poetry and immateriality of it's title Shadows. Ten vignettes of keys, strings, reverb, and voice, the songs sway and lope between dream and lullaby, rose-colored but remote. The album was inspired by the dislocation Kennan felt upon returning, after several years away, to the rustic neighborhood northwest of L.A. where she'd grown up InchWandering through a place where my life once existed but where everything had quietly shifted with time.InchThe music conjures a mood of distance, dust, and dazed emotion, alternately lulling and unraveling. From shuffling tumbleweed vignettes (InchThe Lone West,Inch InchRomantic StringsInch) to sepia-tone torch songs (InchShadows,Inch InchReverieInch) to oblique keyboard meditations (InchMoonlight,Inch InchRainInch), Kennan's soundworld moves with a muted, murky beauty, like alluring shapes seen through smudged glass. In her hands, haze is a transformative property, liberating melody and memory into landscapes still untraveled InchWhat began as a period of nostalgia for me turned into a longing, not for the past, for a place that might exist somewhere beyond the horizon.Inch