A week away from releasing her new album Wayfinder, Boy Scouts aka Oakland’s Taylor Vick has released a charming new video for the album track ‘A Lot To Ask’ today.
On ‘A Lot to Ask,’ Vick wrestles with the conundrum of having to live in the world among others in all your peculiarities and self-destructive flaws. How can you burn a path to belonging when you can’t sit with yourself long enough to light the flame? “I don’t mean to come off like this but / Being myself’s a lot to ask,” Vick sings in a signature moment of downplayed self-effacement.
This is an album that’s not afraid to track down what it all means — how life unspools around the monoliths of love and death, the heavy knots of even quotidian conflict, the task of carrying your own suffering with you day after day, the challenge of meeting other people out here in the tangled expanse of living. In a warm, expansive style that recalls the raw punctures of Lucinda Williams and Alex G, Vick once again shows herself to be a fearless seeker shedding light on the unanswerable.
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1. I Get High
2. Lighter
3. A Lot to Ask
4. That’s Life Honey
5. Not Today
6. Charlotte
7. The Floor
8. Big Fan
9. Didn’t I
10. Model Homes
