Lea Thomas has shared a new single and video for “We Must Be In Love,” the second single from and centerpiece of Cosmos Forever, the gorgeous new LP from the Catskill, NY-based, Hawai’i-native songwriter.
“‘We Must Be In Love’ is a love song. It could be a love song for anyone or anything but for me, it has become a love note to the cosmos, to this earth, to the places that shaped my life, and especially for the island of Maui in Hawai’i, where I grew up. I like to think that true love has a way of slowing down time so you can ‘let yourself be happy.‘
“The video features 8mm footage of wild waters, flowers and friends from excursions around the island when I was home for a visit. My only intention was to share a spark of the love that the land has inspired in me over all these years.
“A few months later, unprecedented and devastating fires swept through old Lahaina town on the West side of Maui, bringing most of a precious historic town to ruins. It is difficult to overstate how deeply this tragedy was felt throughout the island community. But as neighbors came together around this disaster, through the shock and grief, I could also feel the love of the land connecting us all. This song is an ode to that kind of love– a love as resilient as the land itself.”
Lea Thomas’ album Cosmos Forever unfurls in a moment of exquisitely gentle suggestion: “Let’s go for a walk/Don’t talk.” Hers is a voice that is at peace with itself, that is trusting of its own ability to convey the truths of her experience and her personal philosophy, and to express her enduring love for the natural world. These truths, inspired by growing up on Maui, are embroidered with elegantly simple imagery. Fragments and fine details of a myriad different landscapes–a spray of leaves, a winding river, a bracing trade wind–seem to weave themselves together into a blanket of sound that is warm and wholly enveloping.
What do you feel about Lea Thomas’ latest offering, “We Must Be In Love”?
