Beatings Are in the Body: “Blurry”

All the textures from the lead track “Blurry” off the self-titled Beatings Are in the Body are country folk. Piano, some bird cry, a straining cello, a breathy female voice calling across the prairie.

But all the ingredients add up to something more experimental in the way they’re arranged. Instead of hooks, refrains, verses, chorus, and the usual bagatelle, the Canadian trio of Erika Angell, Róisín Adams, Peggy Lee create a moody runway for a kind of theatrical spoken word.

This feels like the first chapter of a concept album with a strong sense of place. How the rest of the book reads, you’ll have to wonder and wait until the release date of late May.

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