Talmers, Lily / It Is Cyclical, Missing You
Album: | It Is Cyclical, Missing You | Collection: | A-File | |
Artist: | Talmers, Lily | Added: | Feb 2025 | |
Label: | El Tee |
A-File Activity
Add Date: | 2025-03-16 | Pull Date: | 2025-06-17 |
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Week Ending: | Mar 30 | Mar 23 |
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Airplays: | 1 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
1. | Apr 03, 2025: | Oh Messy Life
Everything's a Blessing |
3. | Mar 22, 2025: | Music Casserole
You Can Do Whatever You Want To, At Our Best |
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2. | Mar 24, 2025: | Virtually Happy
New York, Early Summer |
4. | Mar 21, 2025: | KZSU Time Traveler
Everything's a Blessing |
Album Review
Wallace Brontoon
Reviewed 2025-03-16
Reviewed 2025-03-16
Singer-songwriter folk-adjacent, alt-country-adjacent, etc, etc from Ann Arbor (now in Brooklyn); her voice is a beautiful weapon, always on the edge of a yodel sound, really sharp edges, funny contortions, and beautiful soaring passages; dense and expressive imagery; eclectic timbres from all varieties of musical influences—just lovely stuff
RIYL: Jesca Hoop, Fiona Apple, Angel Olsen, The Roches
FCCS on 7 and 13
1. (4:33) *** old-timey phonograph intro, into slow, minimalist folk arrangement; yearning and sad
2. (2:56) **** Looping, soaring midtempo/slow yodel-adjacent vox with spare, meandering fiddle and strings; yearning+hopeful vibe
3. (4:38) ***** medium-slow; mysterious minimalist forest-y folk sounds, flutes, etc; yearning but occasionally jaunty—nice variety of moods, a real journey
4. (4:09) ****** Hypnotic hiccup-~yodel gallop, pretty but rough and soaring, with classic folk hooks and spare but insistent arrangement (some flamenco sounds); majestic and somewhat crazy
5. (3:35) ***** Duet with [MALE VOICE; couldn’t find out who]; stomping tempo, some brass, twangy and catchy
6. (3:26) ***** Funkier and slinkier, much more angular, claustrophobic singing; ‘60s mod sound
7. (4:27) (FCC: shit) **** Slow, slow, slow; cascade of slowly-dropping drums; dirge with sweet and snarly vox buoying it, rising in energy and density
8. (5:06) ***** Elegant, almost Bakersfield sound; slow and stately but soaring—eventually a squeezebox solo
9. (5:05) ***** Slow and plunky, satiric and snarky tone in vox; the chorus has everything fall away, like being distant, spacebound; aching near-yodel; funny and angry—god, what she does with her voice is amazing
10. (3:49) **** Looping, 1970s-influenced burgundy rec room pop-folk vibe; keep-on-trucking vox with yearning steel guitar, etc backing
11. (5:01) **** More ripe and humid sound (clarinet, etc), midtempo with steady beat; hopeful
12. (3:17) **** Simple, natural vibe, strumming guitar and piano and fiddle and folk-inflected vox; slow and soaring with rough timbres
13. (3:00) (FCC: shit) **** Old-timey string quartet recording intro (??), slow chanteuse-y vox into defiant counterpoint to string backing; low-key outro, fading like a dying vacuum tube
RIYL: Jesca Hoop, Fiona Apple, Angel Olsen, The Roches
FCCS on 7 and 13
1. (4:33) *** old-timey phonograph intro, into slow, minimalist folk arrangement; yearning and sad
2. (2:56) **** Looping, soaring midtempo/slow yodel-adjacent vox with spare, meandering fiddle and strings; yearning+hopeful vibe
3. (4:38) ***** medium-slow; mysterious minimalist forest-y folk sounds, flutes, etc; yearning but occasionally jaunty—nice variety of moods, a real journey
4. (4:09) ****** Hypnotic hiccup-~yodel gallop, pretty but rough and soaring, with classic folk hooks and spare but insistent arrangement (some flamenco sounds); majestic and somewhat crazy
5. (3:35) ***** Duet with [MALE VOICE; couldn’t find out who]; stomping tempo, some brass, twangy and catchy
6. (3:26) ***** Funkier and slinkier, much more angular, claustrophobic singing; ‘60s mod sound
7. (4:27) (FCC: shit) **** Slow, slow, slow; cascade of slowly-dropping drums; dirge with sweet and snarly vox buoying it, rising in energy and density
8. (5:06) ***** Elegant, almost Bakersfield sound; slow and stately but soaring—eventually a squeezebox solo
9. (5:05) ***** Slow and plunky, satiric and snarky tone in vox; the chorus has everything fall away, like being distant, spacebound; aching near-yodel; funny and angry—god, what she does with her voice is amazing
10. (3:49) **** Looping, 1970s-influenced burgundy rec room pop-folk vibe; keep-on-trucking vox with yearning steel guitar, etc backing
11. (5:01) **** More ripe and humid sound (clarinet, etc), midtempo with steady beat; hopeful
12. (3:17) **** Simple, natural vibe, strumming guitar and piano and fiddle and folk-inflected vox; slow and soaring with rough timbres
13. (3:00) (FCC: shit) **** Old-timey string quartet recording intro (??), slow chanteuse-y vox into defiant counterpoint to string backing; low-key outro, fading like a dying vacuum tube
Track Listing
1. | Daylight Goes Before Me (4:33) | 8. | Man of Stone (5:06) | |||
2. | Beautiful Place (2:56) | 9. | You Can Do Whatever You Want To (5:05) | |||
3. | I Missed You Today (4:38) | 10. | Everything's a Blessing (3:49) | |||
4. | It Is Cyclical, Missing You (4:09) | 11. | Wounded Creature, Reaching (5:01) | |||
5. | The Big Idea (3:35) | 12. | At Our Best (3:17) | |||
6. | New York, Early Summer (3:26) | 13. | Nothing Is Spiritual, John (3:00) | |||
7. | Circular Feeling (4:27) | . |