Don't Weigh Down the Light

Songs of memory and forgetting...within the architecture of shimmering guitars and melancholy light...razor sharp edge of her voice in your bones. Download includes PDF of album artwork.

Meg Baird's third album is the closest she has come in her solo work to reclaiming the cosmic turf once occupied by her former group, Espers. Charlie Saufley, formerly of San Francisco acid rock heavyweights the Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound, joins her throughout.

An effervescent and modern third LP from underrated San Franciscan folk presence.

Singer and songwriter Meg Baird takes her time between solo records.

How you receive Don't Weigh Down The Light, the drifting, ethereal third solo album from Espers' Meg Baird, is going to depend a lot on cont...

The former Espers star abandons ‘freak folk’ on her light third album that contains the odd surprise

Album Reviews: Meg Baird - Don't Weigh Down The Light

Inspired by her move to San Francisco, Baird's third album carries a Californian sound which recalls The Byrds and Joni Mitchell

Loss, leaving and new beginnings dominate a beautiful album from the former Espers singer. CD new music review by Barney Harsent