{"product_id":"wayfinder","title":"Wayfinder","description":"The project of indie singer\/songwriter Taylor Vick, Boy Scouts expanded from a solitary endeavor to a more fleshed-out, collaborative one with 2019's Free Company, her Anti-\/Epitaph debut. Following in its footsteps two years later, Wayfinder is informed by pandemic isolation rather than a breakup, but it returns Stephen Steinbrink as co-producer and includes contributions from around a dozen guests, most prevalently Steinbrink and Vick's brother Travis. It represents Boy Scouts' first pilgrimage to The Unknown studio in Anacortes, Washington, a converted church operated by Phil Elverum and Nicholas Wilbur. After an instrumental prelude that includes an escalating guitar chord progression and rhythmic, multi-tracked vocables, the reflective \"I Get High\" starts things off with the lyrics \"I get high\/Find a view\/Nothing better to do\/When it's just me\/For company.\" Relatable lockdown ruminations go on to consider things she wants (a kiss, some dessert, a dog, \"you\") alongside dreamy, bittersweet guitar, Wurlitzer, and bass. It only adds drums near the end to help break open a fuzzy guitar solo. The achieved playful sincerity holds for much of the track list, with Vick's intimate, lilting confessions supported by layered, processed timbres that land two-thirds of the way between subtly cartoonish and dreamlike. She adds strings to the mix on the wistful, harmony-rich \"The Floor\" and on \"Didn't I?,\" a plaintive ballad that tries to follow the present, memories, dream narratives, and lucid dreams. A midtempo set almost from beginning to end, among Wayfinder's relatively livelier, full-band entries are \"A Lot to Ask\" and \"Big Fan,\" which features wide-ranging backing vocals by Jay Som's Melina Duterte. Even still, the album never quite steps out into the sun. ~ Marcy Donelson","brand":"InnerSleeve","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42008889917605,"sku":"045778783717","price":21.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/6007\/1077\/files\/f63e9374794610cdffda32fdbda95071.jpg?v=1777600883","url":"https:\/\/www.innersleeve.com\/en-gb\/products\/wayfinder","provider":"InnerSleeve","version":"1.0","type":"link"}