The Weaver is about a journey into death, into the shadow-world; something that mainstream western culture doesn’t hold a lot of space for. Death is an essential part of growth, transition, and becoming. The verses in The Weaver are much like a spell for shadow-work. The song was originally the last tune on our 2019 LP; the end of Maggie Willow’s story. Rather than jump right into releasing new work, we wanted to return to this journey through death and explore catharsis as a beginning. In a pairing with Cathedral, these two songs are an embodiment of light and dark. We constantly waver somewhere between them, visiting both sides of this coin. Cathedral is an incantation of protection, and a song of surrendering to the quality of self-defined divinity from within. It explores a profound shift towards self-reliance, and that moment when you step into the unknown. Like so many people, we have gone through a lot of change and growth during the past two years; a lot of which has been really painful and dark. So we wanted to honor that darkness, because that’s also where the light begins to come back.
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released December 3, 2021
Written by Heather Scott and Taylor Holland
Performed by Heather Scott, Taylor Holland, Max Ridley, and Zoe-Rose Depaz
Recorded and produced by Colin Lester Fleming at Communal
Waves Studio, Chelsea MA
Mastered by Derek Blackburn at Quiet House Recording
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