Taste Test: Merival hunts for peace of mind on ‘I with Mine’
Toronto folk singer-songwriter looks ahead by looking back on her life with a new ballad.
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The tension nearly snaps as the acoustic guitar renders the human spirit across its own pins and needles. The steel strings flicker and float, gathering together behind an otherwise god-like delivery. Toronto’s folk songbird Merival (real name Anna Horvath) plucks life’s off-kilter balancing act that overlooks her very existence and maps her every move across barren earth for a sobering and experimental shadow-box. “Maybe, it’s nothing / Or maybe I’ll be dealing with this til I am 50 and there’s nothing left,” she sings on the opening passage, which slices right to the core of what it means to live and regret and love and lose. In propelling herself forward, and subsequently looking back on her current state, decades down the road, Horvath provides a lush craft-piece of existential drama.
“I with Mine” follows on the heels of Merival’s other new entry, “Sinner.”
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