{"product_id":"tasha-you-are-spring","title":"Tasha - You Are Spring!","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-about\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eYou are Spring! \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eopens with a latticed wall of sound, acapella vocals layered in lush harmony, singing the semi-eponymous \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSpring. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eImmediately, Tasha spirits us away from dull, gray winter into a world replete with images and sensations of new life. Think: a riot of bell shaped blooms; blush and citrine and butter yellow; the sky a clear, lungful of blue; warmth, everywhere, kissing skin overwintered and longing for touch; ease after suffering; a deep breath after suffocating.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Don’t die now \/ There’s life to be found now,” she begins. \u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-about\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn lyrics inspired by Gwendolyn Brooks’ poem \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTo The Young Who Want To Die, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTasha enunciates the thesis of this album with exquisite precision.There are seasons of harshness, seasons of difficulty, yes. But, here, in this album, we meditate on spring--on a season of celebration, made all the sweeter because we know what one must endure to get there. “Alive now \/ It’s spring now \/ Alive now \/ You’re spring now,” she closes, borne aloft by the velvety voices of Jamila Woods and Taja Cheek of L’Rain featured on this track, inviting us into the edenic jewel box that she’s created here.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor Tasha, spring is a place we arrive, but it’s also a state we’re in, a way we’ve become. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen discussing what she hopes the album conveys, she further expounds on the meaning of Spring, saying  “it’s a way to say you are the thing that other people are looking forward to; you are the thing we’re waiting for; you are the beautiful thing.” If the previous album was about yearning, of stretching toward an abundance you know is coming, then \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eYou are Spring! \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis a chance to pause and take it all in once you have stepped into your fullness. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhich is to say, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eYou Are Spring! \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis as emphatic as its exclamation mark in its attention to bliss, but it is also clear-eyed about the world around it. The latter half of the album walks this line of awareness between delight and doom. See, for example, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eActor \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand its examination of the gestures we make in a love that’s gone hollow, followed by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSpecial \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand its lavishly arranged topiary of sound, complete with Tasha’s clarinet debut. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn its final track, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eQuick! \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTasha's voice climbs an almost Stephen Sondheim-esque run, urging us, singing, “Quick! See how this beauty rushes by?”  There’s dissonance in the jangle of the chords, the wheeze of her fingers sliding against the guitar neck, a gritty, almost cassette-tape quality to the production, again by Gregory Uhlmann. But we’re not being kicked out of the garden just yet; the song winds itself down, back in the blue-bell grove of Tasha’s softest register. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eYou Are Spring! \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003echallenges us to delight in our present, to see ourselves as the long-awaited season of new life and growth. And when winter comes again as it must always do, grief creeping in, heartbreak at the door, Tasha gives us something to hold on to. The surety that spring will come again, even then. That the beauty and fullness around us now will surround us again, once more. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb id=\"docs-internal-guid-9803f00b-7fff-d39c-bf80-811dfa96c470\"\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-credits\"\u003ereleases June 26, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-credits\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-credits\"\u003e1. Spring (ft. Jamila Woods \u0026amp; L'Rain)\u003cbr\u003e2. Clarion\u003cbr\u003e3. Perfect\u003cbr\u003e4. Promise\u003cbr\u003e5. Ending\u003cbr\u003e6. Summer\u003cbr\u003e7. Lucky\u003cbr\u003e8. Actor\u003cbr\u003e9. Special\u003cbr\u003e10. Porous\u003cbr\u003e11. Quick!\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Tasha","offers":[{"title":"Yellow Wildflower Vinyl","offer_id":42285351829550,"sku":"BR079lp-c1","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0947\/9132\/files\/IMG_8135.png?v=1776796536","url":"https:\/\/www.bayonetrecords.com\/products\/tasha-you-are-spring","provider":"Bayonet Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}