"Sometimes the breeze is the brush of you moving / hallucinate your approach on the carpet / soft as the moss thick as a thicket / half asleep / half awake"
The folk intimacies of "Sunday Morning Visages", by artful Bay Area artist eggcorn (the moniker for songwriter Lara Hoffman), run like a hot cup of tea on a chilly morning. And like that simple concoction that can reach down in your soul and push away depressive thoughts, literally acting as a soulful potion to get your head in the right place to love, laugh and fight societal battles, Hoffman's way of expressing herself does the same thing. Her beautiful voice that feels like tentacles reaching from past iconic folk eras and artists feels so classic in tone as to not feel classic but just feel organic and forever like the 200 feet high forest trees that surround my little home.
"Sunday Morning Visages", once again, exhibit Hoffman's ability to sort of compress a sense of the sensual and existential in the same breath, of feeling things intently, deeply, physically and spiritually at the same time. At least that is the sense I am feeling.
"Sometimes my words are smoke in the sun
strung out as particles in a spotlight
disregard all the literal meaning
as it disintegrates"
"they’ll forget what you did
they’ll forget what you said
hold onto the way you made them feel in bed
oh, Sunday morning visages
pressed like flowers in my head"
Wonderfully penned, played, sung and perfectly, "Sunday Morning Visages" is the 6th track off of eggcorn's latest album "Observer Effect".
LINER NOTES (excerpted / bracketed)"
[Observer Effect marks Hoffman’s first time collaborating and recording with a full band, in contrast with the production of her first album Your Own True Love, which she performed and recorded on her own save for parts from her partner and bass player for eggcorn, Kyle Stringer. Still, she had a heavy hand in crafting this record, tracking the more intimate songs at home and composing some of the string parts before bringing them to her bandmates Ali Gummess (violin) and Karen Moran (viola). The remainder of the album was recorded by Peter Craft at his studio, Boxer Lodge and Alex Doolittle at his home, each playing drums on the respective songs they recorded. Swelling into symphonic rock, “Phorest” features lush string arrangements by Gummess and Moran and poignant cameos from Brian Mello (lead guitar) and Ben Tudor (upright bass). Each musician adds their unique touch while arriving at exciting destinations through playing live and experimenting together. From there, Hoffman worked with acclaimed mixing engineer Maryam Qudus, who had previously mixed eggcorn’s song, “London.”]
[“I’ve always felt very protective of my songwriting. It feels very private and sacred and I’ve been scared to have other people influence the process but this has been rewarding both interpersonally and artistically,” Hoffman says of collaborating.]
"Sunday Morning Visages", with one foot in the past and the other in the present, eschews the cookie cutter pop modes that is proliferating the music spaces and I am thankful for that.
-Robb Donker Curtius
https://www.instagram.com/justeggcorn/
"Sunday Morning Visages", once again, exhibit Hoffman's ability to sort of compress a sense of the sensual and existential in the same breath, of feeling things intently, deeply, physically and spiritually at the same time. At least that is the sense I am feeling.
"Sometimes my words are smoke in the sun
strung out as particles in a spotlight
disregard all the literal meaning
as it disintegrates"
"they’ll forget what you did
they’ll forget what you said
hold onto the way you made them feel in bed
oh, Sunday morning visages
pressed like flowers in my head"
Wonderfully penned, played, sung and perfectly, "Sunday Morning Visages" is the 6th track off of eggcorn's latest album "Observer Effect".
LINER NOTES (excerpted / bracketed)"
[Observer Effect marks Hoffman’s first time collaborating and recording with a full band, in contrast with the production of her first album Your Own True Love, which she performed and recorded on her own save for parts from her partner and bass player for eggcorn, Kyle Stringer. Still, she had a heavy hand in crafting this record, tracking the more intimate songs at home and composing some of the string parts before bringing them to her bandmates Ali Gummess (violin) and Karen Moran (viola). The remainder of the album was recorded by Peter Craft at his studio, Boxer Lodge and Alex Doolittle at his home, each playing drums on the respective songs they recorded. Swelling into symphonic rock, “Phorest” features lush string arrangements by Gummess and Moran and poignant cameos from Brian Mello (lead guitar) and Ben Tudor (upright bass). Each musician adds their unique touch while arriving at exciting destinations through playing live and experimenting together. From there, Hoffman worked with acclaimed mixing engineer Maryam Qudus, who had previously mixed eggcorn’s song, “London.”]
[“I’ve always felt very protective of my songwriting. It feels very private and sacred and I’ve been scared to have other people influence the process but this has been rewarding both interpersonally and artistically,” Hoffman says of collaborating.]
"Sunday Morning Visages", with one foot in the past and the other in the present, eschews the cookie cutter pop modes that is proliferating the music spaces and I am thankful for that.
-Robb Donker Curtius
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The observer effect describes the phenomenon in which the act of observing changes that which is being observed. Bay Area artist, eggcorn uses the observer effect as the foundation for her vivid album by the same name. Taking an incisive look at the power that we have over ourselves and those around us, Observer Effect explores the inevitable ways in which we alter our own experience through reflection.
eggcorn is the moniker for songwriter Lara Hoffman, who released her first single in 2020 as a conscious step forward into her career in music, which until then had largely been used as a therapeutic tool. With her new album, Hoffman preserves the vulnerability of her self-reflection while crystallizing her insights into infectious hooks that make the most nuanced realizations understandable. Observer Effect pivots from the synth-based, electronic realm of eggcorn’s first album Your Own True Love to pop-tinged chamber folk that deftly cushions the uncomfortable truths laid bare within each song. Observer Effect is not an easy record and Hoffman spares no one, not even herself. A music therapist with experience working in psychiatric facilities, she possesses the ability to hold herself as accountable as she does those around her, to ask herself why she feels the way she feels, and to push the boundaries of songwriting into an uncommon dimension.
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The observer effect describes the phenomenon in which the act of observing changes that which is being observed. Bay Area artist, eggcorn uses the observer effect as the foundation for her vivid album by the same name. Taking an incisive look at the power that we have over ourselves and those around us, Observer Effect explores the inevitable ways in which we alter our own experience through reflection.
eggcorn is the moniker for songwriter Lara Hoffman, who released her first single in 2020 as a conscious step forward into her career in music, which until then had largely been used as a therapeutic tool. With her new album, Hoffman preserves the vulnerability of her self-reflection while crystallizing her insights into infectious hooks that make the most nuanced realizations understandable. Observer Effect pivots from the synth-based, electronic realm of eggcorn’s first album Your Own True Love to pop-tinged chamber folk that deftly cushions the uncomfortable truths laid bare within each song. Observer Effect is not an easy record and Hoffman spares no one, not even herself. A music therapist with experience working in psychiatric facilities, she possesses the ability to hold herself as accountable as she does those around her, to ask herself why she feels the way she feels, and to push the boundaries of songwriting into an uncommon dimension.
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