Mourn - Sorpresa Familia - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Southern-bred, alternative R&B singer-songwriter Mereba artistically embodies self-understanding on The Breeze Grew a Fire, her grandest work and first on Secretly Canadian. To hone in on this latest album, it was necessary for Mereba to reconnect with her whole many-sided self, from her inner child to her inseparable relationships. Mereba peacefully transmutes her beginnings, looking upon her closest kinships and friendships with a keen understanding of their steadying, inspirational force. Surrounded by the gentle Breeze of these relationships and recollections, Mereba is empowered as both an artist and mother, while also being reminded to nurture herchildlike wonder. Mereba gracefully shines on the follow-up to herbounteous 2019 debut, The Jungle Is the Only Way Out. In escaping the Jungle, Mereba faced the paradigm shift of birthing a son in 2021 and getting accustomed to a rapidly changing self-outlook. Mereba's creative output has always relied on her innermost reflections and ideas on whatever washappening around her; but in motherhood, the singer's perspective widened while her inspiration became more focused, and more individually powerful. InchEven though I'm fully an adult, I had to grow up in away overnight when he [my son] came,Inch Mereba explains. InchThe process of watching him open up to the world, learn how to engage with the world, it is very tender. I feel like it's the most reminded I've ever been of when I was a child and the first memories I have of life.Inch The transformation brought Mereba to the intimacy of DIY recording sessions, providing an honest and organic foundation to Breeze. Mereba tapped her longtime production collaborator Sam Hoffman to co-assemble the album's rich production, which parallels it's folk-like warmth. Although Mereba is a true double Earth sign-Virgo and Virgo rising-thedevelopment of Breeze was anchored by experi

Mourn is a very young quartet formed from the friendship of Jazz Rodreguez Bueno and Carla Pérez Vas- both born in 1996 in El Maresme, Catalonia, Spain. The duo armed themselves with inspiration from PJ Harvey, Patti Smith, Sebadoh and Sleater Kinney and began writing material, which they quickly released on their YouTube channel. Despite being teenagers, earlier this year they came out of the studio (along with drummer Antonio Postius and bassist Leia Rodriguez) with a brilliant treatise of indie rock that has stunned those who have had the opportunity to listen to it.

Mourn knows quite a bit about setbacks, but a latent belief persists within the negative will eventually become positive. It's the belief in the wonder of resilience. It's the name they chose for their new album Self Worth.The band isn't the same as when they formed. The world isn't either. Mourn grew up, and that's evident in the songs that make up Self Worth. Their melodies - energetic and captivating - venture into less level grounds, and their lyrics show a newfound readiness to tackle issues of a different weight and size.InchMenInch is lyrically patent proof of this growth, and their heightened consciousness as women. A revealing song, necessary and deliberately uncomfortable. A beautiful melody of war against patriarchy; the impulsive rescue of the riot grrrl. Certain needs stand out through the album leaving behind abusive ties, externalizing the interior noise. InchWe talked a lot about getting out of toxic situations - not resigning ourselves to that, not enduring that anymore. The songs are like flags to stand up and say 'we are done.'Inch Just as InchStay ThereInch draws a limit and InchApathyInch spits truth in your face, InchCall You BackInch seems to paint that instance in which love paralyzes, and InchI'm In TroubleInch turns exasperated voices into machine guns. Punk assault with a clear message the body speaks when the mind is not well.Mourn is an enclave of post-teens dealing with the dilemmas of adult life. InchThis album gave us what we needed self-worth, the desire to go forward, to love ourselves, with everything, with the good and bad. This album empowers us.Inch