Heather Maloney returns to MusicLand

Heather is a captivating performer, and an exceptional match for MusicLand’s intimate listening room.  This is her third visit and her new album is exceptional.  Her music is an amazing blend of contemporary and old school folk and rock.  A must see.

Heather’s new material, in the recently released album “Soil in the Sky,” is a collage of “tremulous folk, existential ballads and assertive rock. . .” a collection stitched together from personal and universal ecstasy, and loss both intimate and ancient.

On her new album, Heather takes us to the Midwest’s existential crisis, a barstool scoouching against fate, a make-my-day reckoning with society’s old guard. They’re roads less traveled and she keeps good company. Dawes’ Taylor Goldsmith lends a distinctive duet to “We Were Together,” a rare love song from Maloney that nods to a Walt Whitman poem; Maloney and Rachel Price form a harmonic Voltron on “Enigma,” a triumphant uppercut to oppressive power structures.

From her bio . . “In sound and sentiment, these 12 songs cover an immense amount of territory. But they’re all powered by the same source. There’s a spiritual thread throughout the record. That inspiration doesn’t necessarily come from above — Maloney has a patchwork metaphysical support system — but from all around: the glow of humanity gathered in the people and places that lap out in our wake.”