I don’t want to forget my story, and she certainly doesn’t let us forget theirs. Amy Millan, front woman of indie band Stars, publishes a second chapter with her album Masters of the Burial. An adjuvant account of love lost, love shamed, love searched and prithee, love found. Millan has assembled the talents of an Arts & Crafts smorgasbord, from horns to strings, from The Stills to Broken Social Scene, for her so-called solo project. But with friends like these and covers like Death Cab For Cutie’s I Will Follow You Into the Dark and Sarah Harmer’s Old Perfume, there’s an unfaltering affection for home, and her melody is a guiding compass under the vast sky. Burying herself to pen the lyrics, the formula is simple and the matter of love passionate enough that there’s no need for track-by-track extensive arrangements and musical flourishes. Tap into the unadorned feathered vocals of Amy in Day to Day, Bound to a country bad habit you can’t quit, and full stop to find peace in Run for Me. Although I prefer to follow Death Cab’s Ben Gibbard into the dark, where “towers make shadows,” Amy Millan is a restful place to be. In telling the stories of others, lonely becomes less lonesome and hope becomes less hopeless. We can almost see the faces of those she sings about and they remind us of ourselves and our stories, of my home and my yesterdays, and maybe after sitting with it for a while “I’ll find my way back to you.”
Key Tracks: Low Sail, Day to Day, Run for Me, Old Perfume
Moods: Nostalgic, Forlorn, Encouraging, Hushed, Subdued
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