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Indie songsmith Maria Somerville on how she struggled to surrender control as she sought a less 'introverted' second album
The old adage says you can't go home again, but that is precisely what Maria Somerville did. After years in Dublin, the Galwegian musician returned to her home village on the shores of Lough Corrib in the midst of the pandemic. It was there that her second album Luster, released last month, began to take form. The fibres of her Connemara home are woven throughout every note.
'It was kind of an accident, because I was only supposed to go back for two weeks,' she says. 'The city didn't feel great at the time, and there were more rentals [available in Galway] because of the pandemic. I was in this house on the Corrib, and they said I could stay on, so that's kind of what happened.' She shrugs. 'It was kind of a happy blessing, I suppose. But it's also been nice to be back.'
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