Taste Test: red steppes tracks out the arc of life with ‘Leonine’
The folk singer-songwriter broods on the arcs and nature of life with a new song.
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Nika Aila States is very much musically rooted in the light of the earth, broken up in gooey shod and tangles of veiny underpinnings. But her arms are very much free and flowing in the wind, swallowing the sun’s rays whole, as nourishment as much an acknowledgement to other fellow humble wanderers. “The summer is waning / And I’m here to see you home,” she marvels with her new song “Leonine,” which is healthily steeped to perfection with gurgling guitar. The California dreamweaver marks her footpath with a cutting precision, and her poeticism has never felt so altogether bewitching, muted traces of the meaning of life in an ever-shifting countryside. “It’s coming back slowly / But I know the way,” she convinces the listener nearly as much as herself. She then gathers up off the ground and dusts off the remnants of anguish. There’s a twinkle in her eye, and within that mirror-like pool, she reflects back hope and majesty.
“Leonine” samples her forthcoming new album, Arcs, out May 31.
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