Sheers

The spacious harp textures underlying Sheers' music turn the flashy into fragile, like carefully opening a gift tied with silky ribbons of jazz harp. Sheers’ songwriter Lily Breshears developed this sound over years of being a session harpist, which you can hear behind the voices of Moses Sumney, Weyes Blood, and more. Backing musicians Adriana Wagner (trombone) and Liz Harper (vocals) bloom around Breshears’ crooning into heartfelt minimalism, solos peeking through. With lyrics that often find intense nostalgia and flippancy in the same verse, Sheers sets are as relatable as they are virtuosic. Seemingly simple torch songs slowly unfold into a larger, abstract narrative built of small moments. Songs weave through romantic and platonic, new and old, disarmingly personal and distant – as if sifting through memories to find details lost to time.