In her vividly descriptive lyricism, which comes alive across all her albums, but especially on her latest release, Pentimento, Carson McHone is a natural artist. Written on paintings and postcards, McHone deftly utilizes color, texture and movement in these exceptionally compelling and immersive arrangements. “Tell me if you want to, what colours I should use?” McHone posits on “Winter Breaking”, an immediate highlight that bustles with a Beatles-like swing and delicately embellished with birdsong carried over from the intro featuring a contemplative spoken delivery of an extract from a letter 1840 letter from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Margaret Fuller . . .
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