Muriel Grossmann
Devotion
scum stats: couple hundred on colored vinyl, worth your effort to grab one of those
A troll through the old "record of the week" archives shows that I first wrote about Muriel back on August 9th, 2019 with absolute GLOWING praise of her Golden Rule LP.
Now, over four years later, Third Man has released our very own Muriel album. I'm of the mindset that people overuse the term "blessed" to the point where it's lost most of its power. Yet in spite of that, I feel blessed to in a position where I am able to work with an artist that has personally moved me in an effort to help share their music, their art, with the wider world.
The tunes here are adventurous. Starting the record with a 20+ minute song is the epitome of brave, and that vibe continues across the entirety of the two discs this album is spread across. I don't know very much about spiritual/free jazz, I just know that Muriel's music makes me happy.
So in the spirit of that, in celebration of Devotion release day, I'm giving away a colored vinyl copy of the album to a comment placed here. Maybe I'll pick at random? Maybe I'll actually read them? Maybe if you write beautifully about music that you just inherently love in spite of knowing nothing about it I'll gift you a copy of the test pressing instead. Just get your comment locked in here by 11:59 Central time on Thursday December 7th.
Interesting… Music that we love and know nothing about. It made me think how beautiful and surprising it is to fall in love with a song or an album and not knowing why. Music that is not something we usually like because it’s in our comfort zone. I don’t want to watch the youtube video of Muriel, I would definitely prefer to discover her directly on that vinyl test pressing and fall in love with something I don’t understand.