Taste Test: Abby J. Hall longs for connection amidst coldness on new song, ‘Neighbour’

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Long gone are the days when we actually built communities with our neighbors. It’s not necessarily a detrimental thing; we’re all busy, and life appears to flicker like a candle nearing the end of its wick. We just don’t have the time. Who has time these days? Indie-pop singer-songwriter Abby J. Hall fantasizes about her own real life neighbors, struck by the impenetrable distant between two backyards. It’s a few meters but it feels like the universe stretching from fence line to fence line. “Are we missing opportunity?” she questions. It’s rhetorical, of course, because the coldness has already consumed our whole existence. Pre-pandemic, you’d go out in public, and most folks would be buried into their phones. Another harrowing fact of life these days. “Could you trust me with your life, if I were your neighbour?” Hall later proposes. Well?

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