Flock of Dimes - Pure Love / Time (12")After spending so much time over the past two years sitting with my griefboth personally and creativelyIm thrilled to offer up two songs that center joy, hopefulness, and pleasure. What can I say about Pure Love? Its a fun pop song about how wanting more is the cause of so much suffering! The first verse is about material greed and overconsumption, a poison that has infected every aspect of our society and continues to push us collectively toward the

almost a hundred years old

And no matter where she performs—whether it’s an intimate venue

Bernardes has collaborated with the likes of Caetano Veloso

The album was primarily written while touring with his acclaimed tropicalia-indie group

Although building an album around an experience so far from his Recife home may seem out of character

The plan was to seclude ourselves at their new place

For the last three years especially

middle age

and art-making as a form of worship — a place that elevates the act of writing a song to something beyond sacred

Rhythms move in a half-dozen directions

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probably even recognize it from your own experience