Looking Glass (2022)/ Diane, Alela

"Looking Glass is Diane’s first album since 2018’s Cusp, though in the meantime she re-released her beautiful debut The Pirate’s Gospel. That record dealt with the sense of loss in Diane after her parents’ divorce forced her to leave her beloved childhood home in Nevada City, California. She returns to that theme here. Having learned the house was back on the market, Diane took her daughters to sneak around the place she once called home. “I just returned to say goodbye/Thought that maybe there’d be something I’d find/Like the way a memory moves in the corner of a room,” she sings as she recollects the visit on ‘Dream A River'. Recorded as she sold and moved out of the house where she had been married, divorced, then married again and become a mother, Diane reflect on thoughts of past and future. It all too often feels as though uncontrollable storms rage around us at the moment, but yet again Diane has delivered a beautiful record to find solace in. (For Folk's Sake)|