Lou Turner - Microcosmos [LP]

SPINSTER RECORDS

£20.14

Cat. no: LPSIS0009
Format: LP
Barcode: 634457103931
Release Date: 11 Nov 2022
Genre: Folk

What does it mean to be a traveler in a fxed place? An adventurer in domestic space? A troubadour in a confned microcosm, or a constellation of microcosms—that is, a microcosmos? These are the questions Nashville musician, songwriter, and published poet Lou Turner (aka Lauren Turner, Styrofoam Winos) was refecting on as she wrote her luminous third solo album, Microcosmos

She says of the cosmic country record, "Musically, these songs are mostly in the country/ folk vein of the 70s songwriter but lyrically they're challenging some of those tropes or totally subverting them altogether, talking about commitment and love—the small microcosmic things that make up the fabric of everything."

With her warm and welcoming voice and nylon- stringed acoustic guitar foregrounded over sparse yet playful arrangements, Microcosmos is a meditation on what it means to privilege cultivation over consumption and to ponder larger realities from within the shell of the fxed reality of a home. The reward is the adventure to be found in stillness and observation, the discovery of the otherworldly in earthly matter, the revelations of groundedness. Turner generously offers up these wonders to the listener, sharing hers, and inviting us to fnd our own.

CD Tracks: Microcosmos / Look Out Below / Green and Growing / Empty Tame and Ugly / Dancing to Hold Music / What Might We Find There / I’ve Got the O’s / You Got Under My Skin / Big Ole Head / Smallest Mercy / Hot Soup, Cold Bowl

LP Tracks: Microcosmos / Look Out Below / Green and Growing / Empty Tame and Ugly / Dancing to Hold Music / What Might We Find There / I’ve Got the O’s / You Got Under My Skin / Big Ole Head / Smallest Mercy / Hot Soup, Cold Bowl