专辑简介

With themes covering a diversity of topics from ex-lovers scorn (“Silver Bullet”) to the end of the world (“Desert Road”) and imagines soliciting as varied a range as the beatnick's open road (“Road Trip”) to the lonely cowboy's Old West (“Gone with the Wind”), Hope Griffin's sophomore album, Where the Soil and Stars Meet, is a celebration of the dynamic soul of a complex, thoughtful, and multi-faceted musical artist. A follow-up to 2015's critically acclaimed and award-winning EP Say What You Will, Hope's newest release—her first LP—is as eclectic and as unpredictable of a musical journey as those who fell in love with her debut might expect. Song after song, Hope defies convention, leading her audience by the hand through honest reflections of true love (“Right Where You Want Me”), a broken heart left devastated (“Whiskey and Cigarettes”), a chance meeting with strangers (“Curious”), to the celebration of a long life well-lived (“Song of the Whippoorwill”). Constantly blending genres (you'll still be tapping your foot to her dusty western just as an ethereal apocalyptic ballad switches your gears and sends you spiraling into quiet meditation), the very essence of Hope's trademark style that won her the 2016 WNC music award for best singer-songwriter and Folk/Acoustic band constantly remains: Her lyrical quality of capturing the simplest of life's moments and rendering them profound reflections on the emotions that unite us all. A haunting and always evolving collection of ballads, “Where the Soil and Stars Meet” peers into the soul of an artist whose fingers remain firmly on the pulse of the curious odyssey in which we all find ourselves.