Mother Juniper – Black Locust

Back in November we wrote about ‘Carolina‘, the debut single by Brooklyn‘s Mother Juniper. Led by Lindsay Skedgell, with Matt Schlatter (bass, percussion, electric guitar) and Jon Freeman (12 string guitar) in support, the band “use traditional folk influences and subtle ambient textures to conjure songs at once organic and ethereal,” we described. “This duality between natural and spiritual is rooted in the natural but not constrained by it, delving beyond the mere material world into something deeper and more mysterious.”

Mother Juniper is back with a brand new single, ‘Black Locust’, and the mystical atmosphere continues. Described as “a love letter to the black locust tree in my old backyard and the secrets she keeps,” the song is at once cryptic and intuitive, a contemplation of the value and beauty of what we cannot know. If there are things beyond our understanding, deeper than our surface experience of the world, then Skedgell brings them into relief, skirting around their edges so that something of their shape might become apparent.

The black locust tree
stands outside my home
what she said to me
will always go unknown

go unknown

‘Black Locust’ is out now and available from the Mother Juniper Bandcamp page.

Cover art by Rochelle Voyles