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The album's reckoning with loss, isolation, romance, and personal reclamation signals both a stylistic and tectonic shift for Williamson: from someone who once made herself small to an artist emboldened by her power as an individual.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mexican Summer","offers":[{"title":"Pink LP","offer_id":50396116123979,"sku":"2019768","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50396113207627,"sku":"2019763","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50396113699147,"sku":"2019764","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/0-3_091577d1_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726478520"},{"product_id":"cosmic-wink","title":"Cosmic Wink","description":"\u003cp\u003eA reference to the Jungian idea of synchronicity, or “meaningful coincidences,” \u003ci\u003eCosmic Wink \u003c\/i\u003eis as much a reflection on inspired companionship as it is a rebirth. Jess Williamson fell deeply in love, and then her life was uprooted; she left Texas for California, leaving behind the roadworn verses of her previous albums for brighter, bolder songwriting. The Byrds-ian jangle of album opener \u003ci\u003eI See The White\u003c\/i\u003e airbrushes halos around the brain with an immortal pop hook. When Williamson asks her listener to “tell me everything you know about consciousness,” it’s an invitation down a two lane blacktop, both vessels heading the same direction. The Rhodes-soaked \u003ci\u003eWild Rain\u003c\/i\u003e begins with a ghostly air until a swell of synths gives way like the heavens parting. Williamson’s voice emerges from the clouds promising that she will “treasure your patience \/ from you I learned what it means to make a family.” Concluding with\u003ci\u003e Love On the Piano\u003c\/i\u003e, Williamson’s new musical and lyrical mind declares “Love is my name now \/ Love, Darlin” over an evolving acoustic guitar line and lightly pressed upright piano notes. Vulnerability can feel something less vulnerable when love - true, deep love - creates a latticework to hang the frame of our humanity, which in many ways is the message underlying the entire album. for fans of Chan Marshall, Nina Simone, Townes Van Zandt, Patti Smith, and Leonard Cohen.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mexican Summer","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50471572078923,"sku":"1031516","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50471572177227,"sku":"1031515","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/8e53c149-b4e1-4dda-8acd-7f64cb328508_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727408554"},{"product_id":"sorceress","title":"Sorceress","description":"\u003cp\u003eWe’re in the midst of an occult revival, in large part because people are searching for meaning. 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