Baggs, Katie - Home Again, Home Again

Tracks

		Track Name	Length
	1	All I Know	02:46
	2	Mountain Train	03:29
	3	Stories
	4	Sunset Song
	5	Poet or Painter
	6	How Small
	7	Saint John Song
	8	Oh Light!
	9	Dum Dee Dum
	10	Goodbye, Goodbye

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Anyone that has seen Katie Baggs perform live will know what I mean when I say that she has a funny way of being utterly guileless and completely wise at the same time. More than anything, that’s what comes through on Home Again, Home Again.

Whether with Dead Language, All The Wiles or all by her lonesome, Baggs has a remarkable ability to write songs that lend the simplest observations a kind of profound weight that you don’t hear nearly enough these days.

Songs like “How Small” or album-opener “All I Know”, almost religious anthems for the secularly-inclined, are full of love for the simplicity of home and humble wonder at the beauty of the world. The subtlety of the arrangements brings the power of the words to the foreground here, and the gorgeous minimalism of engineer and producer James Anderson’s aesthetic means that Baggs’ roomy voice rides on top of everything and makes you want to join her church of the natural world, if only to hear her sing.

Indeed, the standout track here is the a capella powerhouse “Poet or Painter” — a song with the kind of impact and depth that stops you in your tracks in the middle of the sidewalk, your jaw dropping a little as you turn up your iPod to take it all in. You might look a little awkward, but it doesn’t matter: This is a new kind of church and it’s good to be a believer.
-Mathias Kom, thescope.ca

buy the album here: http://www.katiebaggs.com/

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