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But LRain doesnt provide quick solutions for making change.
Rather, she takes us on a journey that evades easy understanding.
By avoiding conventional structures, LRain asks the listener to lean in close to the music.
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There are so many levels of pitch modulation on all of those tracks.
I dont know about the non-directness of the relationship between the pitches.
There are ways in which you kind of are trying to escape meaning.
Like, Im putting a lot out there, but also I need something for myself.
The project when we listen to just the lyrics can sometimes seem very heavy.
You say that your late mother was really good at finding joy and a bright side.
And then,Okay.
I guess were crying now, which, I dont know life is like that.
Sometimes you dont really know.
Its about to happen.
And then youre just there.
On Two Face, you sing, I cant get no new nothing.
No new, nothing from me.
Ive gotten all of my bricks aligned, but mortars escaping me.
Im glad you picked up on that.
If were asking the question How are you going to change?
and we end with Whats going to happen to me?, where have we gone throughout this album?
When you make a record about changing, youve still got to do the work to change.
This is just sort of me doing research and thinking out loud, but the work is still happening.
Im still figuring out what Im doing and how I relate to people.
So I guess, yeah, thats where I am.
