A few months ago I was revisiting some old Kate Wolf records & I was struck by how much her work is reflected in that of Alela Diane. I suppose it's not surprising that a young folksinger from Northern California would be influenced by Wolf, who was the major folksinger from the same area in the 1970s.
Anyway, I love this album. It says a lot for the album that I felt the same sort of enthusiasm a couple of years removed from its release.
In particular I love the way that Diane's lyrics combine the physical & the natural worlds. For example: "Thinking I'd like to look at your teeth/lined up in perfect rows/a maze of children's feet in orchard trees/where the flat lands stretch inside your mouth/and when you laugh all of the star thistles tumble out"
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