MYRIAM GENDRON - Mayday LP (colour vinyl)

Limited edition opaque green colour vinyl.

Definitely feels less bleak than the preceding album, Myriam however keeps it in the same mellow folk territory. There's just something about the power of her words and how the minimal arrangements really hit in the soul, everything is very simple but very strong regardless.

Listen to a mere few seconds of Myriam Gendron’s new single and you can tell this is something really special.

Opening with a murky drone and chirping bird sounds, the song slowly begins to emerge, plaintive and ethereal, like a polaroid picture developing on the paper. Gendron's stately voice resounds over a solemn guitar arpeggio, with Marisa Anderson adding painterly flourishes of color and texture to the scene, while Jim White’s drums rattle like the gentle patter of rain on the window. Beautiful, haunting and intimate