"I can feel your heart beat like a candle flame / Fingers stretching out, flicker in the rain / Wind blows, I want to tell you it’s okay / To let in..."
The rain stained folk organica, earnest free flows of "Ache Is A Cricket In The Night" by Where's Beth, the project of Seattle based singer songwriter / musician Sarabeth Weszely and the title track from her sophomore album can, all by itself, warm you like a gentle campfire. From the first downbeat pushed forth by Weszely's tactile acoustic guitar picking and Steve Moores glowing Wurlitzer keys, the absolute sense is late 60's / 70's folk when, it felt birthed from pieces of historical folk and porch country, far away from pop influences. At the same time with the bass provided by Abby Blackwell dancing with Jesse Thorson's drumming, dashes of nuanced electric guitar and swelling pedal steel courtesy ot Mike Turnwall and Carrie Jenning's surprise flugelhorn solo, the rustic blend feels sophisticated too. All the while the song's connective tissue is Weszely's evocative vocal countenance that, all at once, feels embracing in it's gentle, down to earth style uniquely beautiful and simply drawn uttering poetry that uses nature as a metaphor for the human condition.
"Ache Is A Cricket In The Night" for me does not only hold up it's candle light to old school folk, I feel other artistic bits in it. Besides 70's folk, also adjacent to collisions of alt folk, twee, ghost folk, emo (or thereabouts) feeling comfortable next to Kate Wolf or Big Tree or Watchhouse or Renée Reed. At least those artists come to my mind (as scattered as my gray matter has been lately), you may feel other cousins here and there.
-Robb Donker Curtius
LINER NOTES (excerpted / bracketed):
[Raised in the Midwest and trained as a writer, Weszely brings a literary sensibility to her songs, shaped by close observation and restraint. She lived seven years in New York City, where she recorded for my mom & other lovers (2022) and Bone Broth (2024). These early releases introduced her devotion to shared domestic spaces and the emotional textures of the mundane.
Her sophomore album Ache Is A Cricket In The Night continues this exploration of everyday life but widens its emotional landscape. Across its songs, Weszely writes in tiny weather systems: a fridge that stops humming, a clogged drain gurgling like human pain, strangers pointing out untied shoes in the grocery line, white ants burrowing through wood at dusk. These images widen into reflections on grief, anger, the quiet accumulation of loss, and the ordinary ache of being alive. Recorded live in Weszely’s Seattle home studio, Ache Is A Cricket In The Night trusts presence over perfection. It does not rush toward resolution but stays, listens, offering itself as a companion and trusting that even the smallest details can hold entire emotional worlds.]
Her sophomore album Ache Is A Cricket In The Night continues this exploration of everyday life but widens its emotional landscape. Across its songs, Weszely writes in tiny weather systems: a fridge that stops humming, a clogged drain gurgling like human pain, strangers pointing out untied shoes in the grocery line, white ants burrowing through wood at dusk. These images widen into reflections on grief, anger, the quiet accumulation of loss, and the ordinary ache of being alive. Recorded live in Weszely’s Seattle home studio, Ache Is A Cricket In The Night trusts presence over perfection. It does not rush toward resolution but stays, listens, offering itself as a companion and trusting that even the smallest details can hold entire emotional worlds.]
LYRICS
I can feel your heart beat like a candleflame
Fingers stretching out, flicker in the rain
Wind blows, I want to tell you it’s okay
To let in
Thunder rolls inside
Cricket in the night
Losing in the thicket
But he keeps on keep(ing time)
There’s a lump in your gut made of phyllo dough
Careful, never stuck, walk on tip toes
The hurt is softer than we know
But how strong our toes
Thunder rolls inside
Cricket in the night
Losing in the thicket
But he keeps on keep…
Trying to escape complaint with all your might
While ache is a cricket in the night
The Chicken Wheel will take you to the AP Go Fund Me- and any amount is so appreciated!
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN0UMV_SlmqL22kXqzGMn4Q
https://wheresbeth.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/wheresbethmusic/
https://www.tiktok.com/@wheresbethmusic
https://www.facebook.com/wheresbethmusic/
https://www.wheresbethmusic.com/
Where’s Beth is the alt folk project of songwriter Sarabeth Weszely. Voice and lyrics clear as glass, her music carries the kind of honesty that makes a room go still.
Raised in the Midwest and trained as a writer, Weszely brings a literary sensibility to her songs, shaped by close observation and restraint. She lived seven years in New York City, where she recorded for my mom & other lovers (2022) and Bone Broth (2024). These early releases introduced her devotion to shared domestic spaces and the emotional textures of the mundane.
Her sophomore album Ache Is A Cricket In The Night continues this exploration of everyday life but widens its emotional landscape. Across its songs, Weszely writes in tiny weather systems: a fridge that stops humming, a clogged drain gurgling like human pain, strangers pointing out untied shoes in the grocery line, white ants burrowing through wood at dusk. These images widen into reflections on grief, anger, the quiet accumulation of loss, and the ordinary ache of being alive. Recorded live in Weszely’s Seattle home studio, Ache Is A Cricket In The Night trusts presence over perfection. It does not rush toward resolution but stays, listens, offering itself as a companion and trusting that even the smallest details can hold entire emotional worlds.
I can feel your heart beat like a candleflame
Fingers stretching out, flicker in the rain
Wind blows, I want to tell you it’s okay
To let in
Thunder rolls inside
Cricket in the night
Losing in the thicket
But he keeps on keep(ing time)
There’s a lump in your gut made of phyllo dough
Careful, never stuck, walk on tip toes
The hurt is softer than we know
But how strong our toes
Thunder rolls inside
Cricket in the night
Losing in the thicket
But he keeps on keep…
Trying to escape complaint with all your might
While ache is a cricket in the night
The Chicken Wheel will take you to the AP Go Fund Me- and any amount is so appreciated!
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN0UMV_SlmqL22kXqzGMn4Q
https://wheresbeth.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/wheresbethmusic/
https://www.tiktok.com/@wheresbethmusic
https://www.facebook.com/wheresbethmusic/
https://www.wheresbethmusic.com/
Where’s Beth is the alt folk project of songwriter Sarabeth Weszely. Voice and lyrics clear as glass, her music carries the kind of honesty that makes a room go still.
Raised in the Midwest and trained as a writer, Weszely brings a literary sensibility to her songs, shaped by close observation and restraint. She lived seven years in New York City, where she recorded for my mom & other lovers (2022) and Bone Broth (2024). These early releases introduced her devotion to shared domestic spaces and the emotional textures of the mundane.
Her sophomore album Ache Is A Cricket In The Night continues this exploration of everyday life but widens its emotional landscape. Across its songs, Weszely writes in tiny weather systems: a fridge that stops humming, a clogged drain gurgling like human pain, strangers pointing out untied shoes in the grocery line, white ants burrowing through wood at dusk. These images widen into reflections on grief, anger, the quiet accumulation of loss, and the ordinary ache of being alive. Recorded live in Weszely’s Seattle home studio, Ache Is A Cricket In The Night trusts presence over perfection. It does not rush toward resolution but stays, listens, offering itself as a companion and trusting that even the smallest details can hold entire emotional worlds.
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