{"id":77224,"date":"2022-11-08T00:46:43","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T00:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/loopbeatzz.info\/wp\/folk-artist-odie-leigh-returns-with-how-did-it-seem-to-you-the-michigan-daily\/"},"modified":"2022-11-08T00:46:43","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T00:46:43","slug":"folk-artist-odie-leigh-returns-with-how-did-it-seem-to-you-the-michigan-daily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loopbeatzz.info\/wp\/folk-artist-odie-leigh-returns-with-how-did-it-seem-to-you-the-michigan-daily\/","title":{"rendered":"Folk artist Odie Leigh returns with 'How Did It Seem To You' – The Michigan Daily"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Michigan Daily<\/a>
\t\t\t\t\tOne hundred and thirty-two years of editorial freedom\t\t\t\t
Eclectic folk artist Odie Leigh gives listeners a taste of all that she can be on debut EP, How Did It Seem To You<\/em>. Leigh\u2019s music is deeply founded in the blues and classic folk traditions of Louisiana, often featuring self-taught<\/a> fingerpicking, simple strings and woodwinds.\u00a0Leigh\u2019s DIY music-production is enticing and sincere in a way that maintains all of the rawness vital to folk music.\u00a0
Leigh\u2019s voice is wholly enthralling \u2014 her timbre is rich and dark, like a muddy brown; honey-sweet with a healthy amount of grit. The EP is meant to be heard on an old country porch, among swishing grasses and chirping crickets, with wood creaking underfoot. There is something about hearing the squeak of fingertips against wound-strings that makes the intention of the artist seem palpable. It\u2019s almost as if you are in the room where it was written, cheek pressed to the wood body of an acoustic guitar, watching deft hands move in a quick, neat fingerstyle, feeling each strike reverberate through your skull.\u00a0
The EP opens with \u201cA Month Or Two,\u201d characterized by a melodic walking bass line that bounds from side to side. Here, Leigh\u2019s voice and acoustic guitar are of the same lovely timbre and tones, monochrome browns, earthy and warm \u2014 they work quietly alongside each other before blooming into a chorus layered in soft strings and wispy backing vocals. Leigh sings of giving things time, replacing bad habits with new ones and the acute pain of a first heartbreak.\u00a0
From there, chirping birds welcome listeners into \u201cNine Lives,\u201d a song about dissolving into another person, living your life for them and giving them everything you have. \u201cNine Lives\u201d is about coming out of a relationship and realizing you saved nothing for yourself \u2014 you lost so much to the other person in sheer hope of loving them another day. Leigh paints such a pretty picture of misery that you might miss the poignant heartbreak here and think it a whimsical, woodsy love song. Delicately placed wind instruments act like a soft breeze moving through the treetops, rustling leaves and stirring up songbirds as her clear and resonant vocals trill and dip into a deep warm range.
\u201cHabits Held\u201d and \u201cTake Back\u201d lie on opposite ends of a bad relationship \u2014 \u201cHabits Held\u201d is about swapping old poisons for new ones and loving someone you know is no good, and \u201cTake Back\u201d is about reclaiming every ounce of yourself that you put into another person. Strings and layered voices feel almost cathartic \u2014 like a choir rising above the mix, lamenting the heartbreak that lives in these tracks.
\u201cCrop Circles\u201d is as mesmerizing as always, a familiar favorite that brought many listeners to Odie Leigh when released in March 2022<\/a>. Themes of growing older, changing and fearing it deeply still ring true to listeners, and when placed in context with the entirety of How Did It Seem To You<\/em>, I find myself even more enthralled with Leigh\u2019s storytelling ability.\u00a0
Odie Leigh\u2019s music always has such a wonderfully enticing spatial effect to it. Listeners can feel deeply involved in the stories she spins because it sounds as if she is right there alongside them. Leigh understands that good folk music creates a place to feel at home, music that can draw you in and hold you close. At its heart, music should be an intimate exchange between artist and listener, and How Did It Seem To You<\/em> manages to give listeners Leigh\u2019s whole heart.
Daily Arts Writer Claire Sudol can be reached at <\/em>cjsudol@umich.edu<\/em><\/a>.<\/em>
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