by Paddy Kinsella

Speaking on her new song, LA singer-songwriter, Cornelia Murr, commented that ‘Changed is about blessing the past.’ This suggests that such a process is ongoing; a cyclical action you must pay heed to whenever such a season arrives. 

In tribute to that continuous nature, on Changed, Murr presents to us a song that is almost animate. It withers, it blooms, it is at the whim of unexplainable forces. Indeed, the omnichord – made cool on fellow Secret Meeting favourite, Lael Neal’s Acquainted with Night– blesses the song with a tremor-like quality. The interpolation of choral ‘ah’s’ speckles the emerging palette with colour until a picture begins to materialise. The image, however, is lenticular. Like the motion cards of our youth, a tilt left reveals one image, a tilt right, another. 

The world Changed absorbs you in today promises to be a different one tomorrow. Our past experiences grow and diminish with time, just as the people who come into our lives push and pull us in different directions. Through Changed, Murr has created a song as incapable of resistance, as we are to those currents. It lives, it breathes, it gets blown off the course… but for the most part, it is imperfectly beautiful.

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