It was a dark period — for everyone, of course, locked down to stem the spread of COVID-19; and for singer-songwriter Mary Fahl, who lost her mother to age and a sister to ALS. It was a time of sorrow and bereavement, and, with these family losses, a feeling of rootlessness. 

“I kept thinking, what would I write about?” she recalled. “Everything I wrote would sound angry and dystopian…”