Library Baby release "I Guess"

"I Guess" was released on Crying Cat Records on Sept. 17

Library Baby's sound has an air to it. It subtly drifts in and out on a gentle wind and that breeze just kind of washes over you as you listen. 

And so it is again on the group's latest single, "I Guess," another signature spare number placing Sarah Royal's fragile vocals out in front of Justin Lacy's atmospherics. Together, they weave this tapestry of sound that plays with space in the music in a way that many are not patient enough to. It has been argued that music itself is not the notes on the music sheet, but rather, the area in between those notes. Library Baby consistently works well with and in that space in their music. 

It was true in the early spring with the release of "How I Say My Name" as well. That song is driven by this swooning clarinet (or is it bassoon?) sound that makes a bit of a reprise cameo in "I Guess" but accompanied this time in a the song's climax by swirling strings and a kind of gypsy guitar sound that evokes Anton Karas's theme from The Third Man or almost any of the tunes from that Django Reinhardt/Stephane Grappelli collaboration in the late 40s. 

It is a nice touch. And "I Guess" adds to an already promising catalog from the Wilmington duo. 

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