Madison Cunningham - Love, Lose, Remember - EP '2018

Tracks list

Are you tired of pop songs that just rotate the same four chords endlessly like
they were programmed on a computer, which they probably were? Here’s your
antidote. Six songs like A Fine Frenzy, or Sarah Jarosz singing languorous
out-takes from Joni Mitchell’s classic Court and Spark jazz-folk album.
Cunningham’s 2014 debut album had a Sara Groves/Carole King gospel pop
feel: nice, but not astonishing. This time out, complex chords, chill-inducing
strings, saxophone, and acoustic guitar and piano textures combine for a deeply
satisfying listening experience, courtesy of a stellar band, including master
percussionist Jay Bellerose (from too many T-Bone Burnett projects to mention),
guitarist Sean Watkins (Nickel Creek), and guitarist Adam Levy (Norah Jones,
Tracy Chapman). Music runs in her blood; Cunningham’s father Scott leads
and teaches worship music at Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa, but these songs are more
slice-of-life than worship-oriented. The first three songs contemplate the aging
process as it affects individuals, married couples, and generations
respectively: “Time doesn’t wait for anybody. It just turns into
the past,” she says while contemplating who she was “many girls
ago.” The last three songs form a second trilogy about escaping the lonely
prison in your mind instead of “wearing the stripes of the shutter
shadows” there. Producer/engineer/pianist/bass player Tyler Chester
deserves a Grammy for a crisp “you are there” immediacy that
especially pays off on closing stomper “To Another Land.”

Tracklist:
01 - I Close My Eyes
02 - Remember, Remember
03 - Good Guys And The Villains
04 - When Love Loves Alone
05 - Window
06 - To Another Land

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