M. Sage Tender/Wading Vinyl LP 2025

1. The Garden Spot
2. Witch Grass
3. Chinook
4. Wading the Plain
5. Open Space Properties
6. Telegraph Weed Waltz
7. Fracking Starlite
8. Field House Deer (Mice)
9. Tender of Land

The album finds Matthew Sage, aka M. Sage, in the foothills and pastures of Colorado, writing, recording, and returning to a patch of his homeland and identity, one act of sympathetic care informing the next. Constructed primarily on piano and clarinet, and then embellished with guitar, modular synthesizer, percussion, and field recordings captured around the perimeter of his home, the album is a sweeping, serene vision of vitality, radical softness, and the reassuring sense of coming home, even if home has changed. Since the early 2010s, Sage has assembled an idiosyncratic catalog of music that sprawls in various sound directions, manifesting with releases on Geographic North, Orange Milk, and Moon Glyph, and garnering both critical attention and a loyal listenership present for each new turn.