Album Of The Day: What Makes It Through by Sara Groves

Album Art of Sara Groves's What Makes It Through album - On a background that is dark brown on the left and top edges, it transitions to light brown in the middle and a bit more toward the bottom right. In the bottom right quadrant is a middle-aged woman with brown hair and glasses looking slightly to her right, and in front and above her is a whole bunch of floating blocks, circle discs made of wood, and things that look like rocks, all of which suspended in the air in front of or above her head. There's maybe 100 pieces suspended in the air. In the bottom right, in a small gray box is Roman Numerals for the number 14, noting it's her 14th album.

Released 5 years ago today, this is the fourteenth album by singer-songwriter Sara Groves. Throughout her first 13 albums, Sara mixed her personal thoughts with her understanding of Christianity, but on this album, she's talking less directly about Christian themes and more about personal and literary themes. Produced by Sara herself and mostly recorded at home during the Covid-19 pandemic, songs like "Cheshire Cat" and "Telltale Heart" clearly are pointing to literary works by Carroll and Poe, respectively, but there's also ideas from a number of Kazuo Ishiguro novels in the liner notes as well. I really like how Sara's beautiful songs address important topics to our lives today, like whether it's better to remember or forgive and forget as well as how to address a "Deal Breaker" in a relationship. This 9-track album ends with a new recording of one of her best songs, "Loving A Person". It's a bit different than her other music lyrically, but I think it's one of her best albums. I love that my CD copy came with a book containing lyrics, credits and expanded artwork. I think you can still get those from the artist's website.

Release Year: 2021
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A middle-aged, rotund man with short hair and a greying beard is shown from the shoulders up wearing a grey shirt with a cow on the front of it. He's holding a book that is brown with a version of the album cover printed on it, as well as a CD with similar artwork in the same hand. Behind him, in a brightly-lit room is a wall full of CDs and other random stuff.

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