The first single from Thin Lear‘s upcoming sophomore album Many Disappeared, “Silver Bridge” achieves a stunning momentum in its drive from folk-set yearning to rock-ready catharsis. Haunting vocals and lush acoustics tug at the heart right away with its “it’s been ten months since I lost him” anguish. Lyrically, the track captivates with its harrowing eyewitness account of the 1967 Silver Bridge collapse, intertwining the scale of a public tragedy with the suffocating intimacy of a brother’s loss.

“Tell me angel of death, do you understand yet?” the vocals reach an enthralling climax, complemented by prancing piano into the “just the house and me alone” melancholy and the spine-tingling recollection: “When my brother was a baby / He would stumble close behind me / On our trips into the woods / Going further than we should.” The track is a stunning, melancholically introspective standout, featuring production by Matt Ross-Spang (Jason Isbell, The Mountain Goats), in addition to members of Lucero, and former members of Wilco.

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This and other tracks featured this month can be streamed on the updating Obscure Sound’s ‘Emerging Singles’ Spotify playlist.

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