SPILL ALBUM REVIEW: ABIGAIL LAPELL – ANNIVERSARY

ABIGAIL LAPELL
ANNIVERSARY
OUTSIDE MUSIC

Spill readers are by now probably aware of Abigail Lapell and her recent series of atmospheric, slow-burning music that at no point stands still or tries to fit within any specific genre or subgenre.

On her new offering, Anniversary, Lapell explores how it feels to reach that ideal in any romance of partners growing old together. To create the atmosphere, she and her collaborators recorded the album in the historic, 200-yr-old St. Mark’s Anglican Church in Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON.

That list of collaborators included artists that are quite familiar to such a setting, among them Great Lake Swimmers, whose frontman Tony Dekker co-produced the album.

That deep, sometimes echoing sound is all over the album, its theme, and Lapell’s ever-growing songwriting. And while some might say that the sound recalls that Cowboy Junkies classic The Trinity Sessions, Lapell’s music, and the whole sound and atmosphere of the album take a life of its own, with Lapell hitting her intended idea exactly as she wanted.

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