Otracami was taking Adrianne Lenker’s School of Song class one winter while also reading Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez when the ideas and methods of songwriting came to her. The gentle elegance of the guitar work and the subtly shifting harmonics are imbued with the hauntedness one associates with the novel. But Otracami utilizes that mood in “Perfect Reach” to tell a different kind of story in impressionistic phrases of yearning and one’s own motivations in pursuing the path of that yearning and how what you think what you want can seem better at a distance and all the while not wanting to be trapped and defined by expectations. The song expresses a frame of mind knowing how what seems perfect and attainable can be elusive because no one and nothing can fully live up to the visions in your head and the assumption of fulfillment when you find it difficult to accept deviation from an ideal. And sometimes you’d rather not risk disappointment and preserve that perfect fantasy of the mind until it resolves in one’s imagination. The song’s melancholic, dreamlike melodies and the singer’s intimate vocal delivery hold empathy for the embrace of uncertainty, emotional complexity and a desire to avoid harming oneself and others emotionally. Listen to “Perfect Reach” on Spotfy and follow Otracami at the links below.
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