“Move the Moon” finds folk-flavored songstress Lillian Leadbetter riding gentle waves of melody and rhythm, the uncluttered production centered on the lilting intimacy inherent in her vocals. The lyrics are about love and longing, that unquenchable desire that expands and contracts like the tide at night, when the moon’s gravity pushes the ocean’s waters onto shore before, as the earth turns, it pulls them home.
The press release explains that it’s “about impossible love, written during a long distance situation-ship that spanned an ocean and months of uncertainty. As the connection deepened, so did the question at its core: what, if anything, can we truly control?” It also says, “the lyrics are ripped straight from the pages of her journal, capturing the tension between desire and reality. It speaks to the longing to have it all, love, time, and proximity, even when it feels as unattainable as moving the moon itself.”
In short, “Move the Moon” is a mesmerizing listen, the kind of song one can listen to on a loop and never tire of.
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