Moira Chicilo Opened Sonic Sanctuary for Outsiders in the Folk Reverie of ‘Poets & the Misfits’

With her hauntingly intimate vocals, Moira Chicilo could coax even the most introverted out of hiding with Poets & the Misfits, a folk elegy for the kind of mourning few acknowledge; the ache of ambling through city crowds and feeling like a ghost, never crossing paths with another soul cut from the same cloth. Every note in this mesmerising vignette shuns mainstream polish, instead calling out to the poets and misfits, offering sanctuary for four minutes to anyone tired of feeling like the last vestige of a lost age, back when Beat poets and existentialists frequented American diners and Parisian haunts, scribbling their names into the marrow of cultural memory. It’s a stunning installation of Americana, weaving melancholy into the tapestry of hope for all the outliers who crave true resonance. Between the lines, Chicilo champions a close-to-extinction kind of human – the artist, the thinker, the daydreamer – gently vanquishing isolation and letting her affecting voice deliver comfort where it’s needed most. Born in the prairies of Saskatchewan, now based in Vancouver, Chicilo’s unrelenting passion for music was sharpened by personal loss, and that honesty pours through her songwriting, touching on the fragility of life, human connection and the […] The post Moira Chicilo Opened Sonic Sanctuary for Outsiders in the Folk Reverie of ‘Poets & the Misfits’ appeared first on A&R Factory.

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With her hauntingly intimate vocals, Moira Chicilo could coax even the most introverted out of hiding with Poets & the Misfits, a folk elegy for the kind of mourning few acknowledge; the ache of ambling through city crowds and feeling like a ghost, never crossing paths with another soul cut from the same cloth. Every note in this mesmerising vignette shuns mainstream polish, instead calling out to the poets and misfits, offering sanctuary for four minutes to anyone tired of feeling like the last vestige of a lost age, back when Beat poets and existentialists frequented American diners and Parisian haunts, scribbling their names into the marrow of cultural memory. It’s a stunning installation of Americana, weaving melancholy into the tapestry of hope for all the outliers who crave true resonance. Between the lines, Chicilo champions a close-to-extinction kind of human – the artist, the thinker, the daydreamer – gently vanquishing isolation and letting her affecting voice deliver comfort where it’s needed most. Born in the prairies of Saskatchewan, now based in Vancouver, Chicilo’s unrelenting passion for music was sharpened by personal loss, and that honesty pours through her songwriting, touching on the fragility of life, human connection and the […]

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