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Cadence

by Cinder Well

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Overgrown 04:26
Starlings burst the bleeding sun The stone underfoot comes undone I do know more slowly we will ramble Those strong bones of us more fickle Slow too the thoughts The speed at which they pace Gaps between to widen and erase Overgrown, overgrown I do know strands of hair now golden Grey multiply and dominate the forest Wiry and coarse, they blow the color of smoke Sheafs round your shoulders Fall fields, overgrown Overgrown, overgrown
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Returning 04:11
Leather boots, heavy armor Like brambles, like dust One of these days you’ll discover your own morning sun Finding feet bare in softer ground Finding depth in hollow earth The returning takes its own time Edge of the road with wind in your hair In goats yellow eyes, I saw us there Fallen breaths speaking lowly in damper skies My hands slowly softening your lines The returning takes its own time Went on a walk with the wrong expectations Seeking a still life in a town that once was Streets are silent, like they were all last year Time has taken its toll on it You may sense my lonesome shadow Distance between us has carved a hollow Winding stillness, echo chamber Time has taken its toll on me The returning takes its own time
4.
Cadence 06:46
When you know where the light is And you found cadence Your heart is breaking forth And you know what the pain is for You found your emblem Down at the mountain’s shore You hold it daily I love you greatly for it You found cadence Your heart is breaking forth You know what the pain is for Your heart is breaking forth
5.
Well on Fire 01:36
Well on fire The well on fire If it will grow in the cracks then It will grow in the water It will grow in the well I hear your coming Right through the door there It won’t be long now I am close to it now I am closer somehow I am close to it now I am closer somehow
6.
Crow 05:47
Walking once in a farmers field A crow once had a word with me Take your time to let them in Hold your breath when the wall gets thin I awoke in a waterfall In a hole in the middle of it all A crow told me once Take note of who crosses the cornstalks and doesn’t look back at footsteps You’d at least want to know How much pressure you put And how much the earth puts back on you I awoke in a waterfall In a hole in the middle of it all And I know its a little too late To revoke what's been put at stake It crossed its wings and flew away To awake in a waterfall To feel the air above its head Below its wings, the heaviness And I awoke in a waterfall In a hole in the middle of it all
7.
Limestone and the empty road A flower bed of yellow roses I’ve got another call coming down the line Leaning out of broken blinds Spiders thread in the edges fly Flicker in the a-frame Golden tepid light Gone the holding we were in From the cold Atlantic wind Ferry port, metal wing To other shores us they bring These doors that rattle In vaping wind and out of time To let it be enough tonight, we’re running out of time Lines in soil lines in sky I am alone in the fields tonight And alone I may remain Stark like consequence Gone the holding we were in From the cold Atlantic wind Ferry port, metal wing To other shores us they bring Blackbirds scattered at the green Gathering in the barren tree grief rises heavy Ascend in to the night Damp clothes on the line Shaking fence, quivering pines Terrace echo Coming back to life Gone the holding we were in From the cold Atlantic wind Ferry port, metal wing To other shores us they bring These doors that rattle In vaping wind and out of time To let it be enough tonight We’re running out of time
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What could change the winter’s course What could temper the fall What did you notice when the dawn turned to dust The hour turned one and all Will you shelter away from the storm Will you hide out from the wind Will you take your sweet, sweet rest Returning with stories on your wings In a thousand furnished rooms A wilderness of mirrors How can we recognize ourselves Through the windows If we can’t see through the screen’s glare Did you look when the flood left the edge? Did you hear the warning? Did you see the strange green light Over the city this morning? Blackbird, blackbird will you call Blackbird, blackbird will you come Sing us over with your scorched lament You were watching over all along
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Oh, closing time You are on my mind When the road is back in sight When the bottle’s done And the blinds are drawn And our eyes are set on our hungered hearts I will close in the moonlight When the gaping wound Closes to mend And the planes touch down I wonder when When the haze of mourning is but a memory And the fields before us, they are evergreen We are childless and wandering But the nightingale comes back to sing I hope to see you again When the bottles done And the curtain’s drawn And our eyes are set on our hungered hearts I will close in the moonlight

about

Oceans flow through the center of Cinder Well’s music. Cadence, the new album from Amelia Baker’s experimental folk project, drifts between two far-flung seas: the hazy California coast where she grew up, and the wind-torn swells of Western Ireland that she’s come to love. Written soon after the release of 2020’s acclaimed No Summer, Baker returned to her hometown in central California to record at Harlan Steinberger’s nearby Hen House Studios in Venice Beach. Inspired by this new setting, Baker expanded Cinder Well’s sound to include percussion, provided by her old friend Phillip Rogers (Haley Heynderickx), as well as trance electric guitar and expansive string parts courtesy Cormac MacDiarmada of Lankum. While there are still hints of the doom folk that Cinder Well is known for, Cadence balances heavy lyrics with a more expansive sound that nods to LA’s mythical Laurel Canyon years. Across nine epic tracks, Baker treads a sonic and lyrical path between the two coastal towns she calls home, her transcendental voice given new wings by the record’s sweeping arrangements. “Overgrown” is the first major key Cinder Well song in nearly a decade while the uneasy and pulsating title track is a love letter to the self for our darkest days. Fittingly, Baker opens Cadence with a song about selkies—seals that turn human on land. More than just a bit of folklore, shapeshifting selkies are a metaphor for Baker herself: a songwriter tied to the ebb and flow of the ocean (and humanity's) currents, whether they be half a world away or a few steps from home.

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released April 21, 2023

Produced by Amelia Baker

Recorded by Harlan Steinberger at Hen House Studios, Venice Beach, CA
Nich Wilbur at The Unknown, Anacortes WA
John "Spud" Murphy at Guerilla Studios, Dublin Ireland

Mixed and mastered by Nich Wilbur at The Unknown, Anacortes, WA

Photos by Georgia Zeavin
Design by Dan MacDonald Studios

Amelia Baker - vocals, guitar, fiddle, organ, piano
Phillip Rogers - drums
Neal Heppleston - bass
Jake Falby - viola
Cormac MacDiarmada - fiddle
Nich Wilbur - organ

All songs written by Amelia Baker (ASCAP) / Cinder Well

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