{"product_id":"little-moon-dear-divine-vinyl","title":"Little Moon - Dear Divine","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDetails: \u003c\/strong\u003eAll her life, Emma Hardyman has wrestled with contradictions. After all, she was\r\npractically rendered a living, breathing contradiction the moment she was born into her\r\nhalf-Peruvian, half-white working-class Mormon family. In young adulthood, Hardyman\r\nbecame increasingly disillusioned with Mormonism's righteous black-and-white thinking,\r\nas well as it's exclusionary elitism, and decided to leave the church. But she also\r\nacknowledged that the institution's all-or-nothing philosophy had become a part of her,\r\nresulting in a considerable test of grace and unlearning.\r\nAs the singer-songwriter behind Little Moon, the Tiny Desk Contest-winning,\r\nUtah-based avant-folk project, Hardyman uses music as an outlet to illuminate\r\ncontradictions of all kinds. Following the release of her 2020 debut LP Unphased,\r\nHardyman set out to write a romantic album about her newlywed husband Nathan (who\r\nalso sings and plays guitar in Little Moon), but the universe had other plans. After\r\nNathan's mother tragically passed away, Hardyman recalibrated her vision and started\r\nwork on a love-as-grief, grief-as-love album titled Dear Divine. The record serves as a\r\nmirror for the darkest parts of ourselves, allowing us to examine our ego-not to\r\ndismantle it, but to better understand how we love, process adversity and move through\r\nthe world.\r\nCentering the classical music, folk, video game soundtracks and Tabernacle Choir\r\nhymns she grew up with, as well as ephemeral snapshots of personal significance, Dear\r\nDivine is an abundant tapestry of Hardyman's life. As enlivening melodies radiate from a\r\nstring trio, you can envision the classical music that thrums from her parents' radio 24\/7,\r\nas Hardyman sings in an otherworldly coo, you can imagine her younger self swooning\r\nover the tranquil records of Vashti Bunyan and Joan Baez, and as arpeggiated synths\r\ntwinkle, you can visualize the enchanting kingdom of Hyrule from The Legend of Zelda:\r\nOcarina of Time that she still adores.\r\nSongs like \"now\" and \"messy love\" embrace the gloriously jumbled stew of life, with the\r\nformer chronicling Hardyman's arduous quest for love and trust and the latter patiently\r\nnavigating the ways romantic partners can mirror each other's shortcomings. As Dear\r\nDivine attests, Emma Hardyman may not have it all figured out, but that's kind of the\r\npoint. Through grief, faith crises and all-encompassing love, she's found the most wisdom\r\nin life's maddeningly consistent inconsistencies, as well as the subtle ways one can\r\ncultivate a feeling of home. Dear Divine doesn't take a red pen to life, it brings an open\r\nheart, an open mind and achingly beautiful, opulently weird folk songs.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alliance Entertainment","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54876004090202,"sku":"7607309899675","price":10.15,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0977\/2692\/3098\/files\/4369275-3232883.jpg?v=1790667024","url":"https:\/\/groovedeck.shop\/products\/little-moon-dear-divine-vinyl","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}