If, “Oh, Norma” were a band I could be inclined to tell you it is the side project of Lexie Alcock, and Mike Procyshyn. I would possibly describe the indie rock folk sound that this duo inhabits. 

 

Potentially, I could offer the background of how while awaiting back surgery, I was consuming back pills, classic cinema and old Hemingway novels. Citing MRI and CT Scans and operative procedures. Medications and respective dosages. 

 

How those films crept into this batch of songs, bringing lyrical shadows and overblown strings… I may speak at length on my love of Sunset Boulevard and Norma Desmond (the namesake of this not-a-project). Where a full moon and an open tuned guitar led to some thirteen songs all told. Show you the fingerprints of Henry Miller laying alongside the fevered visuals. 

 

 

However, it is a back pill fever dream. 

 

A collection of hymns.