True North Caroline Spence

• 1 Mary Oliver 03:12
• 2 The Gift 03:10
• 3 Clean Getaway 03:47
• 4 Blue Sky Rain 04:03
• 5 Scale These Walls 04:15
• 6 Walk The Walk 04:14
• 7 I Know You Know Me 03:17
• 8 Icarus 03:06
• 9 True North 02:17
• 10 The Next Good Time 03:30
• 11 I Forget The Rest 03:44
• 12 There’s Always Room 02:48
• Total Runtime 41:23

Info zu True North

It is a rare thing for the world to give us a chance to process our grief, to contemplate how time has marked us and colored our lives. On True North, Caroline Spence explores the impact that grieving can have on a person and a way through, at least in how she experienced it.

Musically, True North delivers some notable tonal shifts compared to her previous albums, though she remains true to her sound. Spence and producer Jordan Lehning explored the poppier and catchier dimensions of her voice, calling to mind the alt-rock records of the ’90s (e.g., Nada Surf and Aimee Mann) while still hewing to the Americana instrumentation that has defined her previous work.

True North arrives a few years after 2019’s well-acclaimed Mint Condition, a record that championed peace in the face of upheaval and disaster (ND review). In many ways, True North expounds upon this theme, as many of the songs begin with a lived-in heaviness and lighten into revelation. On the surface, some of them begin to sound like self-help poems, but they never quite reach the point of asserting truths; rather, Spence ultimately expresses the importance of learning ourselves and the people we love.

“Clean Getaway” aptly embodies this, with Spence singing over a tender piano melody, “you gotta face yourself in the mirror / gotta recognize something unclear / gotta know what it is that you fear / and chase it down,” her voice warm and direct. In “Clean Getaway,” she shows the impossibility of escaping and the importance of searching for acceptance instead.

Throughout True North, Spence makes it clear that her songs exist to communicate the tiny revelations of her lived experience. On “Mary Oliver,” she sings, “I don’t wanna put my pain on a pedestal / wrap it up and sell it to you at the record store” a verse before the outro, “all I’m gonna be is a heart on a sleeve.” This is as close to a mission statement as Spence comes on True North, subtly conveying that these are love songs just as much as lamentations.

Spence shows us that grief is ultimately the last expression of love, but it is love nonetheless.

"Song for song, Truth North provides some of Spence’s best compositions to date. In an era where we are collectively reassessing meanings of life and death, the singer-songwriter’s latest will stand as a lasting memento 一 an apt discernment of time and aging. As she opines on ‘The Next Good Time’; “At the end of the line, you won’t be thinking ‘bout the hard times”. (Jason Scott, holler.country)

Caroline Spence, vocals, guitar

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