{"product_id":"jamila-woods-water-made-us-arctic-swirl","title":"Jamila Woods - Water Made Us - Arctic Swirl","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn her expansive new album Water Made Us, Chicago musician\r\nand poet Jamila Woods shines anew as she asks the question, what does it\r\nmean to fully surrender into love? Across Water Made Us, Jamila embraces\r\nnew genres, playful melodies, and hypnotizing wordplay, as she wades\r\nthrough the exhilarating tumult of love's wreckage and refuge. \r\nWhile 2017's HEAVN saw Jamila celebrating her community\r\nwithin a lineage of Black feminist movement organizing, and 2019's Legacy!\r\nLegacy! Reframed her life's experiences through the storied personas of iconic\r\nBlack and brown artists, Water Made Us is self-revelatory in an entirely new\r\nway, making this her most personal album yet. Made together with LAbased producer McClenney, and boasting features from longtime friends\r\nand Chicago natives such as Saba and Peter CottonTale, Water Made Us is\r\na sprawling and intimate portrait of self-reflection, cleverly designed to echo\r\nthe different stages of a relationship: the early days of easy compromising,\r\nflirtatiousness, and fun; the careful negotiation through moments of conflict\r\nor hurt; the grieving of something lost; and the tender realization at the end of\r\nit all that the person who is gone never really leaves, but stays with you as you\r\nfind yourself ready to try again, refreshed and reassured. \r\nThe album's title - taken from a line in album highlight \"Good\r\nNews\" - is a subtle reference to the famous Toni Morrison quote \"All water\r\nhas a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.\" It's\r\nthis sentiment - of memory, place, and returning - that acts as a pillar for the\r\nalbum's arc. Water Made Us reminds us that at it's best love is a warm, still\r\nocean. Deep, shimmering, and endless in it's wonder. And at it's worst love can\r\nbe a riptide that takes us so far away from ourselves we can hardly find our\r\nway back, hardly even remember how to swim. And yet Jamila surrenders to\r\nthis surf - every wave and undertow - because maybe even the most painful\r\nendings can in fact be an invitation that calls her back home, back to shore,\r\nback to herself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vinyl.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46872912068769,"sku":"656605244235","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/7038\/5569\/files\/4234538-3029486.jpg?v=1786568279","url":"https:\/\/store.consequence.net\/products\/jamila-woods-water-made-us-arctic-swirl","provider":"Consequence Merch","version":"1.0","type":"link"}