A fascinating lament for a misplaced plant, Ester’s “Seed, Solar, Soil” is a haunting dirge full of heat, tenderness, and the uncooked pulse of an aching coronary heart.

Stream: “Seed, Solar, Soil” – Ester

You possibly can take me proper down for those who knew how one can beat me…

Back in 2016, I bought my first correct “pet plant” at one in all New York Metropolis’s road gala’s – a gorgeous child pineapple.

I had by no means actually cared for non-succulent vegetation earlier than, nor am I recognized for having something near a inexperienced thumb – so this was as a lot a check for me, because it was for the pineapple. However I studied correct plant care, and over the next months and years I made certain she was effectively hydrated, in an area with loads of (however not an excessive amount of!) daylight, and sorted. She was a fragile, spiky factor, and over our time collectively she grew to be almost twice her beginning dimension.

After which got here the day, in mid 2018, that I found a patch of mildew on her underside – and knew our time collectively was coming to an in depth. It sounds foolish to grieve a plant, nevertheless it hurts to lose one thing you cared for – even when it by no means had a approach of displaying you that very same care in return (and even when it was chargeable for any variety of small, however painful cuts, due to a very sharp set of edges that, regardless of your making an attempt, by no means appeared to uninteresting down). I grew up in a home stuffed with greenery, and the child pineapple was my first critical try at nurturing one thing alone. Shedding it felt, appropriately, like the top of an period of types – and I want Ester’s newest single had been round earlier, as it will have been a poignant accompaniment to these closing days earlier than she absolutely keeled over, succumbing to the rot. A fascinating lament for a misplaced plant, “Seed, Solar, Soil” is a haunting dirge full of heat, tenderness, and the uncooked pulse of an aching coronary heart.

Take the seed and plant it, water it and watch it
it takes a little bit of earth
take the plant and have a tendency it, water it and weed it
it takes a little bit of dust

Fear and lament
the cracks within the cement with weeds all pushing by way of
I attempted my absolute best to do all of it with out you

all of the inexperienced it goes and leaves me wanting
it takes a little bit of harm
all left with the sensation of a sense
smaller than it’s price
fear and lament the actions I remorse
with no approach out of them
anticipate some seraphim to inform me I’m blessed

Atwood Journal is proud to be premiering “Seed, Solar, Soil,” the newest single taken off Ester’s forthcoming EP, Laundry (out November 2023 through EU-based indie Audiosport Information). The Chicago-based band helmed by Anna Holmquist, Ester have made a reputation for themselves over the previous few years as an up-and-coming power within the Midwest, with a substantial sonic vary and spellbinding musical palette that bridges the indie rock, people, and pop worlds.

That includes new songs alongside reworks of older materials, Laundry is about to be Ester’s first bigger launch in over three years’ time, since 2020’s acclaimed sophomore LP, Flip Round – a file that garnered comparisons to artists like Large Thief and Lucius, whereas standing out by itself deserves.

“Darkness permeates Ester’s visceral new album, however not within the draining, melancholic technique to which most of us are accustomed,” Atwood Journal wrote in our album premiere, dated March twenty third. “Fairly, Flip Round is a heavy, susceptible, and refreshingly introspective file reckoning with maturity. It’s a coming-of-age album that brings listeners intimately near life’s common and not-so-regular turbulence – from cults and strained relationships to self-love, insecurity, and chasing our desires… [It’s] a passionate, expressive, and dynamic different rock power able to fill our ears throughout these lengthy days and nights forward.”

A whole lot of life has come and gone within the time since March 2020.

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