This third single in a trilogy from Anders Dal’s Elephant Moon is both the natural successor to the previous singles, “Where Were You” and “Good Medicine,” and a break with them.
On the one hand, it concludes a narrative arc that moves from stillness and contemplation to, thanks to this final installment, a sense of momentum and movement away from such meditations and a wilful lack of inertia. On the other hand, it breaks from the more collaborative, sculptured tones and textures of those first singles and offers a stripped-back, understated sonic experience.
Built around two spacious and complementary acoustic guitars and just the deftest of touches from some gentle keyboards, as always, Dal’s voice is front and center. But where he once advocated stillness and a period of taking stock of life, here he looks not to the past, but to the future, and sets out to explore the world. But this is not the sound of someone riding roughshod, and at speed through life, rather someone reemerging from self-imposed exile, moving out from their cocoon into the light of the world to embrace and bathe in everything that lies ahead of them.
Poetic lyrics paint their intentions across the sky; dexterous, finger-picked acoustica drives home ideas of potential, freedom, and taking steps into the glorious unknown. Where some might approach such an idea of adventure in terms of wild-eyed abandon and a desire to race to meet their future, Anders Dal meets his future with a more measured embrace, happy merely to see what is over the next horizon, around the next bend in the road, and live in the moment of whatever that might bring.
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