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“When I penetrated that man, I felt just like a dog\/ Getting fucked is the season of the world, my life springs forth.” That’s an opening line! The Brattleboro, Vermont singer-songwriter Ruth Garbus used to be in the bands Feathers and Happy Birthday. Last year, she made a self-titled album with the avant-garde supergroup Earth Flower<\/a>. Now, she’s got a new solo album on the way, and that lyric is how she starts it off.<\/p>\n Later this spring, Garbus will follow 2023’s Alive People<\/a><\/em> with a new album called Profound<\/em>. Garbus and her trio, guitarist Nick Bisceglia and keyboardist elie mcafee-hahn, recorded Profound<\/em> directly to quarter-inch tape at the Brattleboro home studio of Kyle Thomas, otherwise known as King Tuff, the former Garbus bandmate who just released his own album MOO<\/a><\/em>. Profound<\/em> includes Garbus’ versions of “Clair de Lune” and “Nocturne,” two works from Gabriel Faur\u00e9, the French Romantic composer who Garbus has recently been studying. According to a press release, much of the album deals with “what it means to be a woman in her forties.”<\/p>\n “I Think I’m Ready Now” is a sparse and striking piece of impressionistic jazz-folk. Here’s what Garbus says about it:<\/p>\n \u201cI Think I\u2019m Ready Now\u201d is a song about being a ripe fruit. I guess. I mean, I wrote it in the same way I write most of my songs, except I was cackling at my audacity a little more than usual. It has a tension, partly because it feels important to me \u2014 I don\u2019t know exactly why. I think there is something about expressing myself in here in a certain way, like I almost need to do it too much and it makes me uptight. When me and elie and Nick have worked on it and performed it, I have had to really go through a process with it; I had to let go a lot and just chill the eff out. It was hard. That\u2019s usually how it goes: when I think I need to be forceful, in how I\u2019m singing and\/or how I\u2019m approaching the arrangement, it turns out I just need to really back off and that\u2019s when the power comes.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Below, check out “I Think I’m Ready Now” and the Profound<\/em> tracklist.<\/p>\n\n