We Are Together Again

We Are Together AgainHowever dimly we perceive it, we are living through a change of worlds. The one we were born into is slipping away, reshaped and denuded by human action. What remains is the question of what we will carry forward, and how we will refuse to surrender ourselves. Will Oldhams new album, We Are Together Again, feels like an answer. In Oldhams songs and in the circle of others gathered beneath the name Bonnie Prince Billy friendship, community, and the

unpredictable melodies

psychedelia

drummer Ryan Sawyer and alto saxophonist Devin Waldan for a rich

The haunting “Jacob’s Ladder” sounds beamed in from another era

for instance

Garcia Peoples "Dodging Dues" LP

especially here in Pandemic Season

emotional debut by one of the most original and gifted young guitarists playing today

with the occasional piano melody or fiddle line

When Nathan Salsburg’s daughter was a baby

packaged in a deluxe tip-on jacket

though it tarry