Together with her hauntingly intimate vocals, Moira Chicilo may coax even probably the most introverted out of hiding with Poets & the Misfits, a people elegy for the sort of mourning few acknowledge; the ache of ambling via metropolis crowds and feeling like a ghost, by no means crossing paths with one other soul minimize from the identical material.
Each notice on this mesmerising vignette shuns mainstream polish, as an alternative calling out to the poets and misfits, providing sanctuary for 4 minutes to anybody uninterested in feeling just like the final vestige of a misplaced age, again when Beat poets and existentialists frequented American diners and Parisian haunts, scribbling their names into the marrow of cultural reminiscence.
It’s a shocking set up of Americana, weaving melancholy into the tapestry of hope for all of the outliers who crave true resonance. Between the strains, Chicilo champions a close-to-extinction sort of human – the artist, the thinker, the daydreamer – gently vanquishing isolation and letting her affecting voice ship consolation the place it’s wanted most.
Born within the prairies of Saskatchewan, now primarily based in Vancouver, Chicilo’s unrelenting ardour for music was sharpened by private loss, and that honesty pours via her songwriting, pertaining to the fragility of life, human connection and the alternatives that form us. Folks not often feels this important; on your personal sake, hit play.
Poets & the Misfits is now out there on all main streaming platforms, together with Spotify.
Assessment by Amelia Vandergast
