{"product_id":"amy-o-mirror-reflect-cassette","title":"Amy O - Mirror, Reflect Cassette","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn 'Mirror, Reflect', Amy O returns to form as she documents her\r\ntransition into motherhood in the early days of the pandemic. Initially\r\nconceived as a lo-fi endeavor to record songs made with friends in those\r\ndays of uncertainty, Mirror, Reflect is an intimate and exploratory work\r\nthat weaves collected home and field recordings with shimmering\r\nsynths and Oelsner's playful lyricism.\r\nA stalwart presence in the indie-pop underground since 2012, Oelsner\r\nshifted her approach to record making on 'Mirror, Reflect' to emphasize\r\nprocess over product, with the resulting songs born out of a myriad of\r\nhome sessions, song-a-day projects, songwriting workshops and online\r\ncollaborations. This kind of patchwork, home-spun approach was\r\nfamiliar to Oelsner, who made her name with her sparkling, homemade\r\npop songs before releasing three studio albums, including her most\r\nrecent album, 2019's Shell.\r\n'Mirror, Reflect' gently shrugs o the sheen of those studio albums, as an\r\nearly prenatal recording of Oelsner's daughter's heartbeat opens the\r\nrecord in the near-ambient instrumental prelude of \"Honey\"-a wonderfully nuanced dispatch from the dog days of summer that's under-bellied\r\nby both the precarity and beauty of the early months of infancy and new\r\nmotherhood. Oelsner's knack for finding magic in the mundane is also\r\ndeeply apparent on \"Dribble Dribble,\" where the stick-with-you nature of\r\nthe playful rhyme schemes of the children's books that became a regular\r\npart of her literary intake are worked into a lilting reflection on resilience,\r\ndestruction and loss.\r\nOelsner's initiation into motherhood is inseparable from the poetic heart\r\nof 'Mirror, Reflect', but the album is also largely informed by the shifts in\r\nOelsner's relationship to herself. Through playful and emotionally acute\r\nobservations, Amy O turns the potentially contractive experiences of\r\nmotherhood, isolation, family and aging into a freewheeling work where\r\nephemerality and humor collide over her deft lyrical phrasing, musicality\r\nand her keen observations turned poetic revelations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrack List\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHoney\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDribble Dribble\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReveal\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eArc\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSediment\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEarly Days\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCanyon\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGreen\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSuperbloom\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAlmost Fall\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThree Cups\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCasio\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Alliance Entertainment","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46921427419393,"sku":"606638763180","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/9063\/4497\/files\/4312353-3127433.jpg?v=1763179329","url":"https:\/\/factoryrecords.com\/products\/amy-o-mirror-reflect-cassette","provider":"Factory Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}