Gathering

Arresting three-part harmonies and acoustic instrumentation are the backbone of this quartet that merge folk traditions with contemporary takes on growing pains and epiphanies. The album is a collection of songs written over three years of growing pains and epiphanies. Three friends, Ali, Lauren and Loris, started singing together as a kind of group therapy to work out life’s bumps and detours through music. Later, when they were joined by Fez these communal exercises coalesced into Maybel. Written and recorded while surrounded by nature and sung in harmonies that are nothing short of arresting, Gathering’s songs are rooted in tradition while lyrically they embrace a modernity not unlike Gillian Welch’s Time (The Revelator).