Northern Irish alt-folk duo Many a Son is asking you to reconsider what it means to experience music with a yearlong set of musical offerings called "Lost in Season," released one song at a time. Their most recent release, "Waxwings," is an astonishing testament to their ability to conjure nature's essence and fashion it into earthly and divine.
"Waxwings" is a call to movement, adventure, and rebirth. As the second single to come from their Winter EP, it sets the hushed, fireside warmth of Pine Cones alongside vibrant, uplifting energy. The song mirrors the fast and agile flight of the bird after which it's named, encouraging listeners to lean into the wild beauty of the season instead of hiding away from it.
"Waxwings" has a sense of urgency and freeing movement, borne of dynamic arrangements that feel equally intimate and expansive. The pair's trademark storytelling style is very much in effect here, fusing poetic lyricism with melodies that bubble and bend like winter winds across the North Coast. There's also a driving pulse under the song, a rhythmic heartbeat propelling you forward, like the instinctual flight of the waxwings themselves.
"Waxwings" is full of energy; it also imbues a sense of longing for change, connection, and the bliss of being caught up in the rhythms of nature. The interlocking instrumentation evokes a dense, immersive atmosphere as if one were witnessing a flock rise together in the winter skies, the bodies moving almost too perfectly between space.
Many a Son's Lost in Season is more than an album; it's a living soundtrack that responds to the passing of time and reflects the flow of seasons. With Waxwings, the duo expands the world they've created, where the music acts like a breeding ground for natural phenomena, where you are invited to enter each song like they would a shifting landscape. And like the birds that inspired it, "Waxwings" takes flight with a sense of wonder, possibility, and promise of what's to come.
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