Q&A
Meg Baird: “Everything becomes more beautiful and more sad”
There’s a strong sense of wistfulness and loss on this album. Is that something you feel more keenly as you get older? Oh yeah, of course. Everything becomes more beautiful and more sad. You do lose more and more people closer and closer to you, it’s just a fact of how things go. So there’s a fair bit of memorialising in this record. And the bulk of it was written and recorded prior to the ‘shelter in place’ orders [of the pandemic] so it was almost like a vessel that kept absorbing even more of that.