We last wrote about M. Grig, the project of North Carolina’s Mike Grigoni, last summer, when we featured a track from his album Still Lifes. We found lots to like in the “bright and eloquent and comfortably sad” song, and so we are very happy to hear of a new M. Grig release.
Millpond Way is a three-song EP, again released by the fine folks at Other Songs Music Co. The record feels very much a natural progression from Still Lifes and debut Field Notes, melding their acoustic and electric styles into an atmospheric blend of old and new. We described how M. Grig’s previous releases were “rooted in memories and the natural world,” and while it appears a failure of the imagination to offer the same thoughts again, there is something uniquely anchored about this music.
Grigoni carves out a space to consider the things that might otherwise pass us by, or fade into the background of our experiences. Here our surroundings are brought into stark relief, an environment wrought by the constant passing of time, and as such shapes not only our memories but our very identity too. And while it’s easy to forget such things in the day-to-day trenches of life, Millpond Way suggests the value in stepping back, in contemplating where we are and were, and how that forms who we are.
Millpond Way is out on the 27th April and you can pre-order it now from the Other Songs Bandcamp page.