Rest Our Wings

Two years before recording the eight songs on 2011’s Rest Our Wings, singer/songwriter Robin Bacior uprooted herself from Northern California for New York City. Here she balances West Coast wistfulness with heady East Coast musings, starting with the gorgeous “Pair Migration”: a piano-based song where Bacior’s elegant inflections slow-dance around sweeping strings. Bacior swaps out piano for an acoustic guitar on “I Hate the States.” A steady rhythm section pedals the song as she sings of a transient wanderlust–the kind best experienced by a spirited college graduate trekking Europe for the first time. Self-sung harmonies hover above playful glockenspiel in the buoyant “Jubilee,” while a bare violin follows waltzing rhythms on the delightfully rambling “Ohio.” She bares some teeth in the slightly biting “Ballad of a Liar,” where her Feisty singing style bobs and weaves around the constant roll of echoed piano notes. “Before the New Year” closes this collection of softly sung folk vignettes, as acoustic strumming accompanies her layered vocals.