A couple of weeks into the new year, the Nashville-based indie-folk singer-songwriter Mynolia will release her full-length debut Salt Around My Bed. We've already posted the early singles "Holy Line" and "Take The Mountain By Surprise." But the track that has impressed me most is "Dragon," which she released yesterday. It's a still, hypnotic reverie built from acoustic guitars and psychedelic flutes, and it reminds me of early Beth Orton, which I mean as high praise. Here's what Mynolia says about it:
This song is really about finding something you didn’t know you were missing. If "Holy Line" is unknowingly dreaming about it, "Dragon" is about unavoidably living it. “Never thought I’d be seen hiding between the trees. It’s a tumble I know from forever ago. Like the old folks have told, stories ancient as dragons.
When something finds you even while you’re actively hiding from it, it can feel pretty cosmic. The path is clear and has to be taken, it feels familiar and large somehow, like an epic folktale. I loved how this track evolved, from home recording and organic shuffle drums by Florian Holoubek to synth swells by Rich Ruth, horns by Corin Droullard and flute by Sam Que. This was another of the first few I recorded, so it would get worked on and added to, then put on the shelf for months at a time. Lyrically, the first verse and last are like the bookends of a significant chapter of my life, one of unburdening, embracing chance, and change and leaping into the unknown.
Check it out below.
Salt Around My Bed is out 1/15 on Full Time Hobby.
