Sailing Stones

“Songs that feel like spring sunlight spilling through a window, soft and bright”
Bandcamp (New & Notable)

“Beautifully textured examples of glistening folk-pop-psych pitched into a sweet spot somewhere between Pentangle, Saint Etienne and The Beach Boys.”
The Irish Times ★★★★

“A kaleidoscopic whirligig shimmering in and out of focus, ‘Slow Magic’ makes matrescence
universal — one of the most satisfyingly complete collections of songs this year”
KLOF

Experiencing Slow Magic is like entering another dimension. Here are songs that stare at the fire, linger in rainbows, fall in slow motion like comets. Their sounds summon up Bobbie Gentry’s country heat, Scott Walker’s gutsy spirit and Linda Perhacs’ uncanny beauty. Hazy woodwind, warm guitars and spacey electronics, fed into malfunctioning tape machines, weave together and glimmer. As they descend into layers of reverb, we're pulled into the whirlpool with them.

The lyrics of Jenny Lindfors, who records as Sailing Stones, remind me of when time felt both stretched and condensed, fractured and endless, in those strange, distant years when my life had recently created new life. In recent years, there have been other albums about matrescence – the physical, psychological and emotional transition a woman goes through when becoming a mother – but don’t dismiss it as a trend. This is a communal recognition – at last – of an experience that affects over half of human beings in so many mercurial, mind-bending ways.

Jude Rogers