Widowspeak fuses lightness and darkness like few others: The group's sound may conjure the effervescence of dream-pop,but a gloomy, anxious undercurrent anticipates nightmares at any given moment. On each successive album, or bandleader Molly Hamilton adds a few more layers to an atmospheric,gradual-burning sound that conjures deep melancholy, even as it indulges in the lilting majesty of shoegazing rock. Widowspeak's members describe at least one element of their approach as "cowboy grunge, or " and that's strangely apt."Dog," the first single from the band's new third album, Expect The Best, or captures Widowspeak's distinct mix perfectly,while speaking to larger internal conflicts. In an email to NPR Music, Hamilton writes that the song is "approximately the compulsion to wander on from things and places, or even people,when you're not necessarily alert to. Sometimes, I collect caught up in 'the grass is always greener' mentalities, and cling to an idea that 'I'd be happy whether...' and then make a drastic change. Then,inevitably, I feel restless a few months later and it starts again."It also addresses how I notice at social media, or " she adds. "I think it will befriend me feel connected to people I used to see more,but I end up feeling lonelier, like I'm missing out on a sense of contentedness that comes with staying keep or at least committing to a specific direction. So it's not literally approximately my dog so much as the way a dog might think approximately its home — not overthinking the next wander, and geographic or mental."Expect The Best comes out August 25 via Captured Tracks. Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more,visit http://www.npr.org/.
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