Taste Test: We Are All Fossils rides life’s ‘Merry Go Round’
English folk singer-songwriter culls a real letter for a story of tremendous heart with a new song.
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Distance and time are threads strangling our very existence; they’re the ties that bind, so to speak. But folk carpenter We Are All Fossils (a moniker brimming with its own profound symbolism) snaps those strings with his new song “Merry Go Round,” a fragile tune inspired by a real life letter written to him from a fan. “I felt cursed at the time / But now I know,” he sings, feeling the pull of gravity between two orbs, bodies caught frozen in the present, from the other side of this spinning ball of rock. There’s seemingly no way out of such a mess, a destiny we all must confront and shatter and rearrange sooner or later, but the South African-born singer-songwriter reframes the tragedy of separation as a beautifully vitalizing expedition. Now out of England, We are All Fossils quietly sketches out a story that defies physical boundaries and instead, constructs one full of heart and unconditional loyalty.
“Merry Go Round” follows last year’s long player, The Optimist.
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