On The Horizon | Laura Gibson

On “Tenderness—” the lead single to Laura Gibson’s acclaimed fifth album Goners (Barsuk Records)—she innocently asks the question, “Do you want tenderness?”
Then, just as ghost children wave in the rear-view mirror, the story shifts, “I’ve been taught that I should wait to be chosen/That I haven’t known love until I’ve been destroyed by love.” The solace of the beguiling golden light becomes something dark-hued and cautiona