Widowspeak - Plum

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“The stone that’s buried: what the fruit is for.”So goes the title track from Plum, Widowspeak’s fifth album. The line serves as an apt analogy for the record itself: the self-awar e sweetness that the band employs to deliver the seed of a harder, sharper idea. Singer Molly Hamilton coats wry observations in a voice as honeyed as the sun-ripened fruit, and Widowspeak have always made a bitter pill much easier to swallow. From its opening strum, there’s a palpable warmth and familiarity to the music even as it hints at darker truths below the surface, questions about inherent worth. What value and meaning do we assign ourselves, our time, and how do we spend it? Show more