Thursday, October 14, 2021

Albums of the Year # 73 Charles Spearin - My City of Starlings

 


One of the inevitable plethora of Lockdown / Covid albums that are now hitting the streets. The utterly gorgeous, largely instrumental My City of Starlings from Charles Spearin also of Broken Social Scene.


Full of time and space as you might expect, given that reflection is one of the things that this particular experience has allowed us all, it's a record full of spectral wonder.


With surely some of the best song titles you will see on any album this year; Sympathy & Vegetation, Portrait of the Artist as a Tuesday, Sometimes it Hurts to be Alive, The Morning Dew Lay Heavy on the Grass. My City of Starlings lives up to its name and takes genuine flight.


Spearin spent much of his time over the last year walking through deserted city streets. As for so many of us it clearly gave him a glimpse of beauty he'd never quite seen before.


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