Yet Furling is the album that most irreverently explores the span of her work and musical touchstones. For all its adornments, Furling remains deeply intimate. The entire album was performed by Meg and her longtime collaborator, partner, and Heron Oblivion bandmate Charlie Saufley. While her prior solo work hinted at more expansive horizons, Furling explores the idea of Meg Baird as a band much more freely. Venturing beyond the musical confines of fingerstyle guitar, she plays drums, mellotron, organs, synths, and vibraphone over her piano and guitar foundations. Her distinctive, simultaneously elegiac and uplifting vocals, meanwhile, graft sunshine sonics to swooning meditations on romantic solidarity in trying times, and weave odes to the simple gestures of friendship—and the loss of family and friends.

On the lead single ‘Will You Follow Me Home?’, Meg Baird soars above a hazy, clockwork tangle of guitars and percussion— reaching for the sky, overhead the propulsive groove and summoning playful and soulful electricity.

The accompanying music video, elegantly directed by Rachael Cassells, is a hypnagogic portrait of an atmospheric summer evening. Illusory and striking, it captures the light and shadow of days long past and contemplates the hope that they may illuminate our future.

Furling was primarily recorded at Louder Studios by Tim Green. Additional piano and vocal recording were captured at Panoramic Studios in Stinson Beach, CA with Jason Quever and it was mastered in Brooklyn by Heba Kadry.

Furling:

1. Ashes, Ashes
2. Star Hill Song
3. Ship Captains
4. Cross Bay
5. Twelve Saints
6. Unnamed Drives
7. The Saddest Verses
8. Will You Follow Me Home?
9. Wreathing Days

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