Jennifer Castle – Monarch Season : Listen

Jennifer Castle’s Monarch Season is unbelievably otherworldly-sounding. Suffused with home-grown, delicate playing and Castle’s breathtaking, breathy, fae-like vocals, the album contemplates her notion of song as “the balm of love and prayers unrequited.”

Of the title track from the album, Jennifer says:

I remember writing Monarch Season last year this time. The monarchs were out in the sky, on the trees and in the meadows. Of course they are so inspiring. And yet the words I remember resonating with me the most are “I can’t help myself from flying away with them”.  Something about that line felt so self-compassionate, the medicine of it worked first on me, and the rest came fast and easy.  It gave me the permission to be the type of person that, at 43, still gets profoundly overwhelmed by nature and her cycles, and needs to stop what I’m doing to suddenly write a song about butterflies. Are you like that? Me too. 

Monarch Season is out October 16th on Paradise of Bachelors and Idée Fixe.

Pre-order Monarch Season here.

Photo by Darren D