Description

Indistinct Conversations is the new album from Land of Talk the Montreal-based band led by Elizabeth Powell. The albums first single Weight of That Weekend, finds Powell delivering a soulful, impassioned plea over an expansive musical terrain. Weight of That Weekend is a recognition of having been on the receiving end of a lifetime of sexual coercion, assault, boundary violations, and subsequent gaslighting. It all just came to light after an especially heavy weekend a few summers back, explains Powell. I was so sick of carrying all this weight that wasnt mine to bear. So sick of being owned by all of this. Imposed on me mostly by men. I grew so sick of suffering and being slowed-down by this weight. The song is a prayer for a lightness of being. A prayer for capital L Love.

All 11 songs on Indistinct Conversations were written by Powell (vocals/guitar/keys), and share the hallmarks of the Land of Talk sound: her silvery vocals; masterful, at times cacophonous guitar playing; and a stream-of-conscious lyricismhere perhaps at her most emotionally vulnerable and honest. Powell produced and arranged the tracks together with her bandmates Mark Bucky Wheaton (drums/keys) and Christopher McCarron (bass), and the trio recorded the album in a studio built by McCarron in Wheatons apartment basement.