Heather Woods Broderick
Glider
WESTERN VINYL
6/10
While she originally hails from Maine, Heather Woods Broderick—the multi-instrumentalist/singer-songwriter whose lengthy credits include stints with Efterklang, Horse Feathers, Sharon Van Etten, and Loch Lomond—revels in a quintessentially Northwestern arty music scene, one characterized by an overwhelming sense of dreariness. On her sophomore LP Glider, Broderick captures the haunting nature and heartbreak of the deep woods, drawing in curious listeners with each song and sending them deeper into the ambient labyrinth. Just as Alexander Payne found the gray in Nebraska, so does Broderick in Wyoming, drowning the Equality State in buckets of rain in the song of the same name.. Throughout all of Glider, but especially on “A Call for Distance,” Broderick is lost in a sense of separation that somehow lacks any anxiety whatsoever; a wave of solitude and peace within the loneliness washes over the tracks. There are cracks of light to be found on her second album, but it takes time and patience to find them.
