Familiar [LP]

Jennifer Loveless - Familiar [LP]

The songs on Familiar sit comfortably with contradiction. Looking backwards without wanting to go back. Missing things without necessarily wanting them returned. Realizing that people who once occupied most of your waking hours can become people whose address you don't know. Meanwhile, some tiny, seemingly irrelevant detail from fifteen years ago remains perfectly intact. Memory has its own filing system. Not a particularly sensible one. Jennifer Loveless wrote a series of poems alongside the album. In them, familiarity appears in melting snow, rough coastlines, a kitchen already warm in the morning, somebody's hands fitting into yours. Elsewhere she wonders about someone she once knew everything about and now knows nothing about. They could live around the corner. They could live on another continent. They could, technically, be dead. Probably not. But that's time for you. Maybe Familiar is less about remembering who you were than realizing you never entirely stopped being them. Things get added. Things disappear. Things come back looking slightly different. And somehow, you recognize them.

Track Listing:

A1. Good Morning
A2. If you hear this, I love you
A3. Slow Rise
B1. In Touch Again
B2. Felt That
B3. SSK4
B4. Familiar