Opener ‘golden hour’ really captures those quietly magical moments of each and every day. A short and simple track, it features just quiet guitar and Gordon’s vocals:

“this is a song about riding my bike
this is a song about me listing all the ways i try to fall asleep
this is the golden hour of the day
the sky after it rains
this is the sunset when it’s yellow
like my coffee stained teeth”

‘dust’ is an ode to the little prince, a song that would have been right at home as one of our Quiet Constant Friends, while ‘Nimbus’ is another hushed bedroom folk song, this time with ukulele, that pairs the beauty of everyday with something a little more fantastic (“tell me are you a nimbus cloud / tell me do you make your mother proud / everything around you is a rosy sort of blue / a crack in the window where the sun can shine through”). Electric guitar peals on ‘vcr’, a song that Gordon says is “almost a love letter”, and ‘specter’ is a very short track about wanting to be haunted by a certain ghost (“i’ll hold a seance so i can see you soon”). ‘topaz’ is a brief ode to a sunny birthday afternoon, to being young and wondering what will happen next, before the final track ‘mailbox’, which is about that ever-flowing river we call time and the fact that if there’s one thing we can’t do, it’s halt its progress.

“i can tell that time is passing
even though my watch is broken
my wallet spilled all over my bag
with your pink letter and bus tokens”

You can get rain songs on a name-your-price basis from the Alexandra Gordon Bandcamp page.

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