Yowler
The Offer
If Sufjan Stevens only wrote songs about the ocean and the one major threat it presents, he would be Yowler. However, Yowler is actually the moniker of one Maryn Jones, the brilliant mind behind this guitar-and-voice-only performance piece about the strange and terrifying dichotomy that is water's ability to both give life and take it away. How the rolling waves can bring both peace and brutal force. How ice is both pure and a hazard. If a frozen lake can be your grave while teaming with nautical life, is being trapped underneath a death sentence, or a rebirth? Earth's most precious gift--a compound with unexplained properties--is the main reason we exist, and The Offer is an essay on its symbolism, what it means to us as living things, as well as the beauty and crushing loss that is the human experience. Water is both birth and death, violence and calm, gift and burden, and The Offer is both lamentation and exultation.
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