Sarah Jarosz has released a deluxe edition of her 2024 album “Polaroid Lovers“, which includes the bonus track “Just Like Paradise.” On her seventh studio album, “Polaroid Lovers” Sarah Jarosz captures little portraits of life and love. Like a good photographer, she knows how to capture the shadows and light of a scene, bringing sometimes-hidden features into relief and focusing on life at the edges and at the centre.
Cascading piano notes create a sonic undercurrent on the album opener, “Jealous Moon,” a propulsive folk rock ode to regret about misunderstandings in relationships as well as a defiant celebration of the acceptance of the future. The song’s a snapshot of the insights to which we are often blind in the moment and the sure-sightedness we gain through hindsight. The cantering rhythms of “When the Lights Go Out” transport lovers as they discover where the edges of their own identities end and the points at which they “fade into each other.” Lines from the first verse provide the album’s title—“In a dream we were Polaroid lovers/In the deep where the edges don’t lie”—as the singer wonders aloud whether her lover’s identity remains constant, or inconstant, when he doesn’t need to put on a display for her (“Who are you when the lights go out”).
“I wrote ‘Just Like Paradise’ with Daniel Tashian in the same few days as “Columbus & 89th” and “Days Can Turn Around,” she says. “We were overlooking the Gulf of Mexico and taking in the cool ocean breeze. The way the sunlight was sparkling on the water led us to imagine a place where you never have to be cold or worried or lonesome and you can let go of all your darkness and fears.”
released January 26th, 2024
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