{"id":29007,"date":"2019-08-16T12:45:29","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T16:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/?p=29007"},"modified":"2019-08-16T16:21:37","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T20:21:37","slug":"album-review-gold-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/album-review-gold-child\/","title":{"rendered":"ALBUM REVIEW: Gold Child Shines on Self-Titled Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_29024\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29024\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/gold-child-aysia-marotta.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/gold-child-aysia-marotta.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/gold-child-aysia-marotta-324x216.jpg 324w, https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/gold-child-aysia-marotta-416x277.jpg 416w, https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/gold-child-aysia-marotta-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/gold-child-aysia-marotta-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/gold-child-aysia-marotta-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/gold-child-aysia-marotta-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/gold-child-aysia-marotta-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/gold-child-aysia-marotta-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/gold-child-aysia-marotta-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/gold-child-aysia-marotta-700x466.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29024\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo by Aysia Marotta<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Emily Fehler released her debut record as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/goldchildmusic\/\">Gold Child<\/a> last week, a moniker she adopted upon moving to New York City in 2012. A \u201cself-proclaimed student of country music\u2019s golden age,\u201d she names legends Patsy Cline and Emmylou Harris as major influences, though her music itself has drawn comparisons to Angel Olsen, Mazzy Star, and Neko Case. All of these are well-deserved, as Fehler displays a mastery of the Americana sound that makes Gold Child feel classic and fresh all at once. This timelessness stems partly from Fehler\u2019s pristine vocals, which shimmer bright above lush acoustic instrumentals, but also from the subject matter itself.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/6m2jhmqwXdWfavEZp0QVJC\" width=\"300\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Fehler pulls the classic &#8217;70s country sound into the present moment with her lyricism, which provides deep insight into the inner emotional world of a millennial woman, focusing on ephemeral details, evoking imagery like morning, roses, and rainbows in her kitchen. She plays with the concept of time as a theme often: its value in an age when most people work at least two jobs to make ends meet, and the modern, disconnected feeling of wishing you had more time to yourself while also wanting to share it with someone else. On track \u201cLose the Light,\u201d she distills the potent visual of light coming and going as the day progresses to a metaphor for giving our time to other people each day in order to survive, concluding with the salient line \u201cTime\u2019s been fooling us all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More than once, Fehler bemoans the way her life and time no longer feel like her own, a concept that cuts to the very core of what it means to be a young person in America circa 2019. And yet, while she wishes these things still belonged to her, she implores someone else to help her get it back, opening &#8220;Lose the Light&#8221; with the plea \u201cTake me somewhere where my time is my own.\u201d On the aptly-named \u201cIn Between,\u201d she acknowledges the rift between connecting with another and having to give up personal space to do so, delicately touching on the human tendency to push people away while silently wishing they\u2019d resist us: \u201cI might get angry sometimes but I like to feel you next to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fehler acknowledges that she wrote the album in a transitional time in her life, saying \u201cI was coming into my own as an adult &#8211; working day jobs, trying to cope with the state of the world, and my newfound anxiety &#8211; which is maybe a culprit of why the record took so long to make.\u201d\u00a0Early single &#8220;Undertow&#8221; provides a snapshot of her trajectory: &#8220;Everything&#8217;s feeling so hectic\/Been moving too fast\/While I&#8217;m just standing here motionless.&#8221; But if this debut is any indication, some things shouldn&#8217;t be rushed. Fehler can finally rest assured that her time was well spent: she has managed to craft a beautiful collection of meaningful songs that will resonate with countless people, as we all drift along in a world that seems to carry on outside of our control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Emily Fehler released her debut record as Gold Child last week, a moniker she adopted upon moving to New York City in 2012. 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