{"product_id":"jamila-woods-water-made-us-cassette","title":"Jamila Woods - Water Made Us [CASSETTE]","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn her expansive new album Water Made Us, Chicago musician\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand poet Jamila Woods shines anew as she asks the question, what does it \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003emean to fully surrender into love? Across Water Made Us, Jamila embraces \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003enew genres, playful melodies, and hypnotizing wordplay, as she wades \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethrough the exhilarating tumult of love's wreckage and refuge. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhile 2017's HEAVN saw Jamila celebrating her community \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewithin a lineage of Black feminist movement organizing, and 2019's Legacy! \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLegacy! Reframed her life's experiences through the storied personas of iconic \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBlack and brown artists, Water Made Us is self-revelatory in an entirely new \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eway, making this her most personal album yet. Made together with LAbased producer McClenney, and boasting features from longtime friends \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand Chicago natives such as Saba and Peter CottonTale, Water Made Us is \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ea sprawling and intimate portrait of self-reflection, cleverly designed to echo \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethe different stages of a relationship: the early days of easy compromising, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eflirtatiousness, and fun; the careful negotiation through moments of conflict \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eor hurt; the grieving of something lost; and the tender realization at the end of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eit all that the person who is gone never really leaves, but stays with you as you \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003efind yourself ready to try again, refreshed and reassured. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe album's title - taken from a line in album highlight \"Good \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNews\" - is a subtle reference to the famous Toni Morrison quote \"All water \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ehas a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.\" It's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethis sentiment - of memory, place, and returning - that acts as a pillar for the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ealbum's arc. Water Made Us reminds us that at it's best love is a warm, still \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eocean. Deep, shimmering, and endless in it's wonder. And at it's worst love can \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ebe a riptide that takes us so far away from ourselves we can hardly find our \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eway back, hardly even remember how to swim. And yet Jamila surrenders to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethis surf - every wave and undertow - because maybe even the most painful \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eendings can in fact be an invitation that calls her back home, back to shore, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eback to herself.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Spinster Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42601090252883,"sku":"656605244297","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0647\/6399\/files\/4234575-3029487.jpg?v=1743528147","url":"https:\/\/www.spinsterrecords.com\/products\/jamila-woods-water-made-us-cassette","provider":"Spinster Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}