Nandi Rose Plunkett, better known as Half Waif, has announced a new album, titled Lavender. Plunkett said in a statement that Lavender is so named for her grandmother Asha. She would pluck a nod to the lavender from her garden and boil in a pot on the stove. Of the single, she added, “‘Keep It Out’ is a song about the evolution of the self in a relationship: the maintenance of autonomy in the midst of a process of coupling, aging, and decay.” The woozy strains of the opening track ‘Lavender Burning’, lull the listener until Plunkett over enunciates the word “cardinal” causing a mental rewind of the tape to realize she is singing of her recently departed grandmother. Even though the lyrics may be oblique in places which lends universality to the album’s themes, her hushed confidence recalls the sweep of Kate Bush. Plunkett gives hope that through pain comes growth and that maybe sometimes you can unring the bell.
> Shiuly Akter
Half Waif- Lavender
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