Returning Home is the latest album by the all star project that is Starless, the musical project that allows Paul McGeechan to utilize his skills as a producer and organizer to assemble this sumptuously elegant album that features a host of his friends and fellow musicians.
Gurs Milis Morag is the first appearance on the album of Kathleen MacInnes singing in what I guess is Gaelic on this slow subtle opener as her crystal cut vocals are enmeshed in strings and what sounds like the chanter from the bagpipes played without the pipes so to speak.
Nothing Left Of This is an atmospheric song featuring Marie Claire Lee's careworn vocals mourning the loss of everything that she's lost.
High Tide is with Emily Smith whose vocals are couched in the dreamy strings as she feels haunted by not knowing where you are as this builds hoping to hear her favourite song again, the one you always played when you were together.
Mo Nighean Donn An T'Sugraidh is with Maeve McKinnon it feels like a sad lament couched in glorious strings with some elemental percussion that almost has the feel of a drum machine.
Elektra In Blue features Chris Thompson on a slow thoughtful and sumptuously glorious love song, is it about a motorbike or just about the love of your life.
Spiral is a soft as can be instrumental with chiming guitar figures is a wash of spectral ambience.
Stepping Out Slowly with Jerry Burns and Phil Campbell is as slow a song as they can manage while having the most minimal of backing while still feeling like a wondrous beautiful duet for the lovers slowly but surely figuring out just how attracted to each other they are.
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Together uses the rich tones of Grahame Skinner to imbue another string laden epic with plenty of yearning for the love he could never quite have, that always seemed elusive as he dreams that one day they will be Together as one.
Alone And Forsaken with Marie Claire Lee is a snippet of a song that leaves intriguing possibilities of how it will develop for the listener to ponder on. As it leads into Suffocate allowing Roddy Hart to give a plangent reply of sorts to Marie Claire, as he dreams of the days, he will spend with you.
You're Beautiful that has Phil Cambell begging for just a small chance to show his love for you, on this re-working of the Love & Money classic that features backing vocals from P.P. Arnold and the glorious strings of the Prague Symphony Orchestra.
The album is closed by Kathleen MacInnes as she opened it, this time on an excerpt from MLK that feels like a sliver of a much larger piece.
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