Norma MacDonald Halifax, Nova Scotia
The opening chords of In Waves set the record spinning in January, but the mood is wholly autumnal: lush, then resolute. A
harvest and a hope.
On her sixth album, Norma MacDonald explores new songwriting tactics, reimagines old demos, and conducts sound experimentations that expand her folk and country influences into 60s pop, Motown harmonies, and jangly early millennium indie-rock.
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