{"product_id":"little-moon-dear-divine-colored-vinyl","title":"Little Moon - Dear Divine [Colored Vinyl]","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAll her life, Emma Hardyman has wrestled with contradictions. After all, she was \u003c\/span\u003epractically rendered a living, breathing contradiction the moment she was born into her\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ehalf-Peruvian, half-white working-class Mormon family. In young adulthood, Hardyman\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ebecame increasingly disillusioned with Mormonism's righteous black-and-white thinking,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eas well as it's exclusionary elitism, and decided to leave the church. But she also\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eacknowledged that the institution's all-or-nothing philosophy had become a part of her,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eresulting in a considerable test of grace and unlearning.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eAs the singer-songwriter behind Little Moon, the Tiny Desk Contest-winning,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eUtah-based avant-folk project, Hardyman uses music as an outlet to illuminate\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003econtradictions of all kinds. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFollowing the release of her 2020 debut LP Unphased,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eHardyman set out to write a romantic album about her newlywed husband Nathan (who\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ealso sings and plays guitar in Little Moon), but the universe had other plans. After\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eNathan's mother tragically passed away, Hardyman recalibrated her vision and started\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ework on a love-as-grief, grief-as-love album titled Dear Divine. The record serves as a\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003emirror for the darkest parts of ourselves, allowing us to examine our ego-not to\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003edismantle it, but to better understand how we love, process adversity and move through\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ethe world.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eCentering the classical music, folk, video game soundtracks and Tabernacle Choir\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ehymns she grew up with, as well as ephemeral snapshots of personal significance, Dear\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eDivine is an abundant tapestry of Hardyman's life. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs enlivening melodies radiate from a\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003estring trio, you can envision the classical music that thrums from her parents' radio 24\/7,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eas Hardyman sings in an otherworldly coo, you can imagine her younger self swooning\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eover the tranquil records of Vashti Bunyan and Joan Baez, and as arpeggiated synths\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003etwinkle, you can visualize the enchanting kingdom of Hyrule from The Legend of Zelda:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eOcarina of Time that she still adores.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eSongs like \"now\" and \"messy love\" embrace the gloriously jumbled stew of life, with the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eformer chronicling Hardyman's arduous quest for love and trust and the latter patiently\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003enavigating the ways romantic partners can mirror each other's shortcomings. As Dear\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eDivine attests, Emma Hardyman may not have it all figured out, but that's kind of the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003epoint. Through grief, faith crises and all-encompassing love, she's found the most wisdom\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ein life's maddeningly consistent inconsistencies, as well as the subtle ways one can\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ecultivate a feeling of home. 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