Florist - The Birds Outside Sang Told Slant commissioned by Roulette and the

commissioned by Roulette and the Jerome Foundation

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the Philadelphia-based musician behind the project

What started out in 2013 as a conceptual project where dark thoughts and too-quiet moments could be placed

favoring texture and movement over immediacy

Florist - The Birds Outside Sang Told Slant commissioned by Roulette and theFlorist began in the Catskill Mountains as the friendship project of Emily Sprague, Rick Spataro, and Jonnie Baker, later joined by Felix Walworth. Holdly (2015) and The Birds Outside Sang (2016) captured the earliest moments of that bond; hushed, homespun songs shaped equally by intimacy and resilience. The latter was written in the aftermath of Spragues near fatal bike accident, beginning in solitude and concluding with the bands return to each