Mary Lattimore - Collected Pieces: 2015-2020 (2LP) [Limited Edition Gold Ripple Color Vinyl]

In the afterglow of her acclaimed 2020 album Silver Ladders (a year-end favorite of NPR, Pitchfork, The New Yorker, and others), Los Angeles-based harpist Mary Lattimore returns with a culminating counterpart release, Collected Pieces: 2015- 2020. The limited-edition LP features new and previously unreleased material, Bandcamp-only singles, and other obscurities alongside standouts from her 2017 tape Collected Pieces. Beyond the vinyl compendium, an expanded tracklist on the cassette/digital version brings more of Lattimore’s archives together for the first time. Lattimore has described the process of arranging these releases as akin to “opening a box filled with memories,” and here that box continues to populate, accessible for both the artist and fans. Evocative material separated by years, framed as a portrait of an instrumental storyteller who rarely pauses, recording and often sharing music as soon as it strikes her. Seemingly in constant forward motion for the last five years since her Ghostly debut, Lattimore glances back for a breath, inviting new chances to live in these fleeting moments and emotions; all the beauty, sorrow, sunshine, and darkness housed within.

A1. Wawa by the Ocean A2. We Wave From Our Boats A3. For Scott Kelly, Returned to Earth

B1. Your Glossy Camry B2. Be My Four Eyes

C1. Pine Trees (Home Recording) C2. We Just Found Out She Died C3. What the Living Do

D1. Polly of the Circus D2. The Warm Shoulder D3. Mary You Were Wrong