Stream: Whispertown, ‘I’m A Man’

Daiana Feuer on July 19th, 2017

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Morgan Meyn Nagler returns with a re-envisioned edition of Whispertown, the band she originally named after a secret agent spy device, and a new album, “I’m A Man,” arriving Sept. 1 via Graveface Records. Produced by Jake Bellows, it’s a stripped back acoustic record, her third full-length, following 2008’s “Swim” and 2012’s “Parallel.” After a polyp on her vocal chords marked an uncertain future for Nagler’s singing career, “I’m A Man” sat on the shelf for a long while, but Nagler kept busy co-writing with the likes of Haim (“Falling”), Kim Deal (“The Root,” “Range on Castle”), Rilo Kiley (“Dreamworld”) and the Dave Rawlings Machine (“Sweet Tooth”), among others.

The title track is gently strummed guitar, strings, a few subtle sonic aberrations that give the song just a tingle of weirdness, which Nadler describes as “an underground anthem for human beings.”

Her description of the song is more than anything a statement about modern life: “In a modern world built on comfort and convenience, where humans are becoming more and more isolated, living inside flat glass screens with a fickle and false sense of community, there comes a time to break out. I hope it will not be too late. In this pivotal moment, one foot in the quicksand, I reach out to all, holding space for this hope. I reach out not as a gender, or a skin tone. Not as a political party, or a religion. Not as an age or as an avatar, but as a man. A human. All for one and one for all. At the risk of sounding like a hippie optimist (which I am), love is all you need. Team Human. New Genes in Blue Jeans. We can change. In fact we are in a constant state of change. Empathy can turn the tides.”

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