Artists Close-Up: Caitlin Canty Offers You A “Motel Bouquet”
There is something tragically beautiful about a Motel Bouquet: a splash of roses in a room ,made to look generic in aesthetic, but hold some of the greatest, funnest, and saddest stories ever lived by passing, human beings. Those roses watch as you fight with your husband, call your kids, or Netflix and Chill. Caitlin Canty takes that perspective of observance in her new album: Motel Bouquet.
The Nashville songstress has created a record that is as quietly haunting and gorgeous as a rainy day. Tracks such as, “Time Rolls By”, “Who”, and “Leaping Out” drip upon the window panes of your mind to make you wonder things like, “Where does time go?” and “Why does love demand so much courage?” Each question is held within soft, guitar melodies that go through arrangements like sand through hands: easily, beautifully, and meant to let run. While the best things in life often demand the most of us, Caitlin Canty writes verses that soothe you into acknowledging you have to give a lot to make the little you get feel big.
Often, people think you you give a lot to get a lot, but we know that is not necessarily true. Instead, Canty sings to the constant openness and humility needed to make things like, a “Motel Bouquet”, a “River Alone”, or a “Basil Gone To Blossom” feel like winding, magnificent beauties. Of course, such images are symbols for the relationships, dreams, and situations she has learned from the past few years and travels. Hence, metaphors are abound in Motel Bouquet, but the symbols relate everyone’s desire to make one’s life feel like it is going forward.
It is said that “Death is in The Details!”, but Canty shows that life is held in them, especially the smallest. Canty molds her voice to feel as delicate as a light touch gracefully caressing your heart. This delicacy helps her show simplicity is empowerment, and the only way you can make your heart feel like its going forward is if you change your mind, as well. For Information on Caitlin Canty Click Here.
