{"product_id":"carson-mchone-pentimento","title":"Carson McHone - Pentimento","description":"\u003cp\u003eLP - Black Vinyl.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first notes of Pentimento are birdsong, and with it in the distance, Carson McHone reads from an 1840 letter from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Margaret Fuller: “Heaven walks among us ordinarily muffled in such triple or tenfold disguises that the wisest are deceived and no one suspects the days to be gods.” One of the birds whistles a distinct three-note tune.\u003cbr\u003eMcHone whistles it back.\u003cbr\u003eA piano takes up the line, and the song “Winter Breaking” blooms into being.\u003cbr\u003eIn the study of physical art, the pentimento is an artifact, a remnant of a previous draft or altogether different painting that’s apparent beneath layers of paint on a finished canvas.\u003cbr\u003eWithin seconds of Pentimento, one hears how the album organizes itself around this idea: “Winter Breaking” is an astonishing piece of songwriting, a meticulously crafted guitar-pop jewel that finds McHone at the peak of her powers as a bandleader and a lyricist.\u003cbr\u003eThe first 30 seconds contain the pentimenti, the earlier sounds, spaces, and materials that became this sound.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe effect is staggering; even for McHone, whose output to this point has seen her channel seemingly disparate influences into a unique, alluring sonic signature, Pentimento marks a radical expansion of the scale of her ambitions.\u003cbr\u003eThe “all of it” present here is not just the album, but context.\u003cbr\u003eThe 185 years between McHone and Emerson.\u003cbr\u003eTwo seasons in the desert.\u003cbr\u003eSix days spent oceanside with friends.\u003cbr\u003eThe eternity between us and the first notes of birdsong.\u003cbr\u003eThrillingly alive in the music are exquisite articulations of pastoral folk with snatches of spoken word or a choice instrument that casts a song in elegiac light.\u003cbr\u003eOccasional riffs that call back to her roots in Texas build towards moments of organic and tactile rock, with tambourines and claps, homemade instruments, and layered acoustics.\u003cbr\u003eThe record is an anchor in the ceaseless flow of time, a home amidst the tumult of the moment we find ourselves in now—love and beauty in the presence of brutality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePentimento is an audacious and rewarding record.\u003cbr\u003eIt is also a reckoning: How can love and beauty exist in the presence of brutality? Disquietingly.\u003cbr\u003eDissonantly.\u003cbr\u003eAgainst its shadow and bearing its mark.\u003cbr\u003eThis is what McHone and her collaborators capture on Pentimento with the subtlety of watercolor painting and the richness of verse, in ghost vocals and child voices alike.\u003cbr\u003eEvery layer is a universe unto itself, revealing the pulse that animates Carson McHone’s creative drive.\u003cbr\u003eArranged here and expressed as a whole, it constitutes a masterpiece.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MERGE RECORDS","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":53206464987463,"sku":"TRI-64842","price":29.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":53206466036039,"sku":"TRI-64843","price":16.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0931\/9779\/5655\/files\/2269c682d7bd082576fa274311c03888_8e12cc29-3da8-435b-988c-062ea4121b91.jpg?v=1769371674","url":"https:\/\/towerrecords.ie\/products\/carson-mchone-pentimento","provider":"Tower Records Dublin Ireland","version":"1.0","type":"link"}