Little Moon Dear Divine Moon White Vinyl Edition

Moon White Vinyl. All her life, Emma Hardyman has wrestled with contradictions. After all, shewas practically rendered a living, breathing contradiction the moment she wasborn into her half-Peruvian, half-white working-class Mormon family. In youngadulthood, Hardyman became increasingly disillusioned with Mormonism'srighteous black-and-white thinking, as well as its exclusionary elitism, anddecided to leave the church. But she also acknowledged that the institution'sall-or-nothing philosophy had become a part of her, resulting in a considerabletest of grace and unlearning.As the singer-songwriter behind Little Moon, the Tiny Desk Contest-winning,Utah-based avant-folk project, Hardyman uses music as an outlet to illuminatecontradictions of all kinds. Following the release of her 2020 debut LPUnphased, Hardyman set out to write a romantic album about her newlywedhusband Nathan (who also sings and plays guitar in Little Moon), but theuniverse had other plans. After Nathan's mother tragically passed away,Hardyman recalibrated her vision and started work on a love-as-grief,grief-as-love album titled Dear Divine. The record serves as a mirror for thedarkest parts of ourselves, allowing us to examine our ego_not to dismantle it,but to better understand how we love, process adversity and move throughthe world.Centering the classical music, folk, video game soundtracks and TabernacleChoir hymns she grew up with, as well as ephemeral snapshots of personalsignificance, Dear Divine is an abundant tapestry of Hardyman's life. Asenlivening melodies radiate from a string trio, you can envision the classicalmusic that thrums from her parents' radio 24/7, as Hardyman sings in anotherworldly coo, you can imagine her younger self swooning over the tranquilrecords of Vashti Bunyan and Joan Baez, and as arpeggiated synths twinkle,you can visualize the enchanting kingdom of Hyrule from The Legend of Zelda:Ocarina of Time that she still adores.Songs like "now" and "messy lo...