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Los Angeles musician Cate Kennan’s self produced second full length unfolds with the poetry and immateriality of its title: 'Shadows'. Ten vignettes of keys, strings, reverb, and voice, the songs sway and lope between dream and lullaby, rose-colored but remote.

The album was inspired by the dislocation Kennan felt upon returning, after several years away, to the rustic neighborhood northwest of L.A. where she’d grown up: “Wandering through a place where my life once existed but where everything had quietly shifted with time.”

The music conjures a mood of distance, dust, and dazed emotion, alternately lulling and unraveling. From shuffling tumbleweed vignettes ('The Lone West', 'Romantic Strings') to sepia-tone torch songs ('Shadows', 'Reverie') to oblique keyboard meditations ('Moonlight', 'Rain') , Kennan’s soundworld moves with a muted, murky beauty, like alluring shapes seen through smudged glass. In her hands, haze is a transformative property, liberating melody and memory into landscapes still untraveled.

TRACK LISTING

1. The Lone West
2. Shadows
3. Moonlight
4. Reverie
5. Romantic Strings
6. Devil’s Hour
7. The Lone West II
8. So Far Away
9. Rain
10. Calling