Sid The Cat Presents

Molly Parden

with Shane T

1/13/2024 at Genghis Cohen

Autumn is an auspicious season for nostalgia, and Molly Parden’s new album Sacramented opens with late year sunshine and an invitation to reverie: Wash me in rosemary / you come to me when I sleep / for the last 200 nights / I’ve seen you in every one of my dreams… Across the work, Molly pulls close the memory of love and love lost, but she sings like someone who has made peace with both. If her Rosemary EP (2020) was a tribute to grief in the undertow, Sacramented sees her out past those tumbling breakers, floating on her back.

Molly’s voice is immaculate, as is the production arc of the record, thanks to her producer and mix engineer, Micah Tawlks. The core team of musicians –Tawlks, Dan Burns, and Kevin Dailey– are some of her closest friends in Nashville, in addition to longtime comrades and collaborators Juan Solorzano, Jason Goforth and Ben Kaufman (distinctly heard throughout Rosemary) each making guest appearances, making it feel like another Tuesday night in the small eclectic music town they have inhabited together for the last decade. Their arrangements are generous and unhurried and perhaps constitute a memorial to the end of an era for Parden, her having recently relocated to western Massachusetts.

On Sacramented, Molly holds emotional tension like a master weaver. In “Dandy Blend” she juxtaposes the devastating past with the simple, human present: Thought that I would never get over him / Put a little honey in my Dandy Blend… Adding honey, she seems to be making the best of her days. Maybe things aren’t fully settled, but that’s okay—and she’s okay. The world and thoughts that Molly paints become so immediate that the 60s era piano, tambourine and flute interlude make more sense than anything. (Dandy Blend, don’t sleep on this song.)

This is an All Ages event.

Presented by Sid The Cat.

SID THE CAT

Molly Parden

About

Lineup

Venue

Genghis Cohen

Download the DICE app