Old Saw – “Song For Paloma”

The smell of woodsmoke and winter isn’t in the air just yet, but with a new album on the way from RSTB faves Old Saw, it’s only a matter of time. The band conjures up their final album, a swan song that finds them closer than ever to something more tangible and less littered with the ghosts of Americana. The opening track “Song for Paloma” still creaks with the band’s rusted hinges, but it’s more focused on folk and Bluegrass in their familiar forms rather than digging up the roots to look for the rot. The song finds the band at their most wistful, rambling though strings and sawing at bows, reverberating with something akin to promise. It’s an almost improbable irony that the band’s most hopeful album would come at a time of deep American decay, but maybe that’s what we need most; not a mirror but a vision, a beacon in the dark. The band’s new album, The Wringing Cloth, is out October 17th from Lobby Art.

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