Taste Test: Sheli Monacchio rises triumphant out of darkness with ‘No Such Thing’
The folk singer-songwriter returns with a stunning, visceral new song about pain and infidelity.
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Tragedy often begets transformation. It’s hard to see the forest for the trees in the beginning, but time really is the agent to heal it all. Undergoing one of the toughest moments of her life, New Jersey folk narrator Sheli Monacchio lets her pain run wild and free on a torrid new weeper called “No Such Thing,” an acoustic-rendered ballad about a former lover’s infidelities. Little by little, after weathering every kind of unruly storm, she comes closer to understanding who she’s meant to be now that the clouds have all vanished on the horizon. “Hallelujah, the sky’s crashing down,” she sputters, a rather potent confession splashed with replenishing rays of sunlight after a summer downpour. Her strength is fresh, raw and palpable on every syllable that emits from her heart, a tremendously important performance in all of music this year.
“No Such Thing” is an essential cut ripped from Monacchio’s new album, Maternal Instinct, out everywhere now.
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