Nora Knight - The Moon Is My Watchdog (CD)

Nora Knight
The Moon Is My Watchdog
Memory Waste
United States, 2026
Compact Disc

Another batch from a fantastic new label here in Western Mass!

FROM THE LABEL:

With two feet planted firmly in the mountain soil, and a vast starscape swirling overhead, Nora Knight casts her eye upon the terror and thrill of personhood, of the ecstatic burden and agonizing joy that comes with living, and searches for peace in the unknowable.

This is elegantly tactile music, as concerned with the intricacies of the body as with the heart and mind. Guitars crunch and wilt and bend, strings pierce and glide, drums burst, birdsong and rain envelop, while Nora’s voice, crystalline and patient, pulls us ever-forward, grasping for transcendence in the everyday - swimming with a new love, reconnecting with an old friend, watching the leaves as the seasons change.

I hear the muddy estuaries of Virginia, the wild peaks of the Catskills, blackberry-stained-palms and riverwater-wrinkled-toes, Karen Dalton wishin’ for rain, Beverly Glenn-Copeland welcomin’ spring, Judee Sill lopin’ along through the cosmos. I hear the pain of trying, trying, trying.

The Moon Is My Watchdog asks the scary questions, the ones that linger on sticky, restless nights, of life, love, the soul, mortality, what we owe each other and, just as importantly, ourselves - and knows we may never get the answers. But isn’t the waiting the best part, anyway?

Travis Carr