Allegra Krieger – I Keep My Feet on the Fragile Plane (2023) [FLAC 24bit/48kHz]

Allegra Krieger – I Keep My Feet on the Fragile Plane (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 27:34 minutes | 300 MB | Genre: Indie Folk, Singer-Songwriter, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © DOUBLE DOUBLE WHAMMY

“I Keep My Feet on the Fragile Plane” – Allegra Krieger’s fourth record and her first with Double Double Whammy – is her most mature and alluring work yet. It contains all the signatures of her best lyricism: delicate and precise phrasings, moments that flicker between beauty and banality, meaning that forms through the accretion of observations, memories, and unexpected adages. This is an album that is at once post-theistic and devoted to a relationship with the divine, each song blinking in and out of “the fragile plane,” a place Krieger describes as “a middle ground in the universe,” both abstract and peaceful, where time, bodies, and names don’t exist. Krieger initially collaborated with Luke Temple and Jeremy Harris to record her vocals and guitar to tape at Panoramic Studios in West Marin, CA. As the album continued to form, Krieger envisioned instruments – like the French and English horn (Nancy Ranger and Priscilla Reinhart), electric guitar (Jacob Drab), and pedal steel (Kevin Copeland) – as characters which would walk in and out of the soundscape. What emerged from conversations with composer Sammy Weissberg, are brass parts that have a dark, almost surreal logic: horns arise to emphasize a word or phrase, fall out completely, only to rush back with dissonant orchestrations that gesture simultaneously toward deterioration and generation. While Krieger takes inspiration from Elliot Smith’s honesty, Judee Sill’s cosmic reaching, and Joni Mitchell’s sharp noticing, the dream-like association, harmonic dissonance, and angular melodic ascensions in each song are singularly and delightfully Krieger’s. “I Keep My Feet on the Fragile Plane” is a daring collection of songs by an artist who scries with both the cold glass eye of truth and the beating heart of empathy; who portrays life in all its twisted complexities.Allegra Krieger, the professor of Mundanity and Philosophy, orders the class to quiet down and takes the lectern. She reads from her newest collection of perfect folk songs, I Keep My Feet on the Fragile Plane.

“I never forgot that as something grows something else must rot/ So why would I try to make it turn around?/ I wanted to be something more than I am.” Students furiously scribble.

Such is the task of the Krieger fan. Constantly jotting down notes to try and recreate the feelings taught. Fragile Plane, her third record, bears the same difficult duty as her previous efforts: disrobing the loud, blaring noises of boredom and making oft-forgotten moments beautiful. That Krieger does it effortlessly will come as no surprise for those who have heard her before. For those who have not, know that the longtime fans are jealous. Hearing her songs for the first time is a special and joyous occurrence.

Fragile Plane sounds a bit bare compared to her last record, Precious Thing, but her lyrics demand it. Her curious, childlike love for her surroundings never leaves her but this record highlights that penchant with wider eyes. By the time closing track “Lingering” arrives, you too will wonder how the time just slipped away and why you aren’t bored but sanguine as the sun slips behind a cloud. That’s when you know it is time to press play again and get ready for another lesson. – Jeff Laughlin

Tracklist:

1-01. Allegra Krieger – Making Sense Of (02:05)
1-02. Allegra Krieger – A Place For It To Land (03:28)
1-03. Allegra Krieger – Nothing In This World Ever Stays Still (03:17)
1-04. Allegra Krieger – Let It Go, Watch It Come Back (02:39)
1-05. Allegra Krieger – I Wanted To Be (02:39)
1-06. Allegra Krieger – I Had Some To Give (02:38)
1-07. Allegra Krieger – Carry Me Into Tomorrow (02:43)
1-08. Allegra Krieger – Terribly Free (02:45)
1-09. Allegra Krieger – Low (01:53)
1-10. Allegra Krieger – Lingering (03:23)

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