Maybel – Long Road Ahead

Psyched to share the magical opening track from Gloam, the long-awaited sophomore album from Canadian folk supergroup Fez Gielen, Ali Hendra, Loris Kecaj and Lauren Spear, aka Maybel. The band put out one of the most beautiful albums of 2020, and have expanded their lineup on Gloam to include Eliza Niemi on bass/cello and Caylie Runciman (Boyhood) on bass/drums, with Jonas Bonnetta (Evening Hymns) producing once again. The group explains their interpretation of the album's title, the Scottish word for twilight, as being "in transition, between sleeping and waking — a quiet underworld where one is alone with their thoughts, in true presence with the in-between," and opener "Long Road Ahead" is a tender, hopeful portal into that potentially uneasy liminal state. It feels like an elegantly reverent modern update on a bucolic, lost folk-rock classic, replete with lush, quietly majestic instrumentation and hauntingly gorgeous harmonies that recall Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young at their most sublime. Gloam is out October 27th on Toronto label Idée Fixe.