“This is a song I wrote about my attempt to locate the unlocatable — the ineffable and elusive ‘place’ inside of me where my beliefs are born from and exist within.” — Taylor Vick
Boy Scouts is no more. Well, the musician Taylor Vick is gratefully very much still here; but after receiving a cease and desist letter, she decided to move on from the alias under which she had been releasing music, including the warm, easy, yet melancholy album Wayfinder that made many best-of lists in 2021.
The Oakland-based singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist revealed all of this alongside the release of a new single, “Place That I Believe From,” produced in partnership with fellow local artist Stephen Steinbrink. Soft plodding piano chords accented by strings introduce the song, a profoundly inward-looking piece attempting to understand the self and how we become who we are. It feels as though as it ends as quickly as it begins, the time disappearing in those slow marching keys and Vick’s silvery crooning voice.
