Orillia gives fantastic folk sonics w/ release “FIRE-WEED”

From the title alone ”FIRE-WEED” we’re given the thematic hint, a plant that often thrives after destruction, that recolonizes barren ground, that is both metaphor and motor of growth in adverse terrain. With this album, Orillia maps that notion to the urban rural borderlands of identity, memory, longing, and renewal. In this context, “FIRE-WEED” is less an album of isolated songs and more a patch quilt of modern Americana, the streets, the motels, the highways, the private and public hauntings, channeled through Marczak’s lens as Orillia..

At its core, “FIRE-WEED” is about displacement and return, about the liminal spaces where one isn’t quite “from” one world yet not fully of another. “FIRE-WEED” is a strong, promising record. It doesn’t reinvent the wheel of alt-country/folk rock, but it does what good albums do, it brings specificity, sincerity, and style..

“FIRE-WEED” is a mature, textured album. It doesn’t reinvent Americana, but it revitalizes it with specificity—Chicago’s edge, motel liminality, childhood echoes, rural sonic echoes As Andrew Marczak launches Orillia into this next phase, he has the voice, the vision and the reference points. What remains is broadening the stage, bringing more sonic surprises, bigger visual correspondences and deeper narrative arcs. If “FIRE-WEED” is any indication, he’s more than ready for the task..

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