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In the afterglow of her acclaimed 2020 album Silver Ladders (a year-end favorite of NPR, Pitchfork, The New Yorker, and others), Los Angeles-based harpist and composer Mary Lattimore returns with a culminating counterpart , Collected Pieces 2015-2020. The limited-edition LP features new and previously unreleased material, Bandcamp-only singles, and other obscurities alongside standouts from her 2017 tape Collected Pieces. Beyond the vinyl compendium, an expanded tracklist on the cassette/digital version brings more of Lattimore's archives together for the first time. Lattimore has described the process of arranging these releases as akin to Inchopening a box filled with memories,Inch and here that box continues to populate, accessible for both the artist and fans. Evocative material separated by years, framed as a portrait of an instrumental storyteller who rarely pauses, recording and often sharing music as soon as it strikes her. Seemingly in constant forward motion for the last five years since her Ghostly debut, Lattimore glances back for a breath, inviting new chances to live in these fleeting moments and emotions; all the beauty, sorrow, sunshine, and darkness housed within.A familiar harp sequence opens the set, making it's first vinyl appearance is InchWawa By The Ocean,Inch Lattimore's ode to her favorite convenience store, Wawa #700 in Ship Bottom, New Jersey. InchTwelve summers of solo trips to Ship Bottom and it hasn't really changed. I'll always visit it in my dreams,Inch Lattimore said upon it's initial , and surely that beachside landmark still appears each time this delightful pattern unfolds, hoagies and all. Next is a newer single, InchWe Wave From Our Boats,Inch which she improvised after walking her neighborhood during the early days of lockdown in 2020, and shared on her Bandcamp. InchI would just wave at neighbors I didn't know in a gesture of
