The songs on “Steady Now” are sweeping and majestic, built around intricate layered harmonies and instrumental flourishes that expand Sale’s sonic palate - steel guitar notes that linger like the moan of wind through cracks in old barn boards, piano that climbs over gentle percussion like the waters of a mountain stream colliding with millennia-old rocks, bass licks that lope around the edges like a bobcat on the edge of a campfire’s glow. The fossils were trapped and preserved for millennia in sediment along the banks of an ancient rivers. Sea Levels Are Rising More Quickly Than in the Last Two Millennia ( The Smithsonian Magazine)
