I was very taken by Emma Tricca's last album, St Peter from 2018, (that seems like such a long time ago now). It was a haunting, literary record, overflowing with classical allusions, which stayed on my radar for several months and ranked # 32 on my end of year album countdown in a strong year.
Belatedly, she's back with a follow up Aspirin Sun. An intriguing title, fittingly for Tricca, as it's another intriguing record. She's a musician who plots and navigates her own trajectory and territory. An example to many. She's on Bella Union, a label that encourages and nurtures artistic perspectives. She truly maps out her canvas again here.
Supported by musicians like Steve Shelley and Jason Victor who have worked with Sonic Youth and Dream Syndicate as well as elsewhere. This is exalted musical company and results in a dappled and layered ware for which one play will surely not be enough.
This is Psychedelic. It's Folk. At its heart is Tricca's questing, lived in voice. On a year which set sail musically early in January with John Cale's.remarkable Mercy and has maintained phenomenal momentum since Aspirin Sun is yet another impressive case for the defence of music as art and an act of exploration and perhaps the best we have at our disposal right now.
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