Song You Need: Mary Lattimore finds heavenly comfort
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It’s hard to think about the harp without summoning Renaissance imagery of cherubs plucking golden strings, their celestial reverberations echoing down from on high.
Mary Lattimore has spent much of her career subverting these easy connotations, taking her instrument to corners of the sound world it’s never seen before.
But on her newest song, she embraces the harp’s heavenly connection to almost unbearably beautiful effect. Read Next: Meg Baird announces new album Furling “And Then He Wrapped His Wings Around Me” is the lead single and opening track from Lattimore’s forthcoming album, Goodbye, Hotel Arkada.
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