Professor Girlfriend Releases "My Mother in Love: The Summer Sessions"

The Professor Girlfriend project just released an outstanding set of songs that bring together this almost welcoming tonality and lyrics that feel relevant and personal while being poetic, but descriptive simultaneously, and it all has this character to it. This is one of the most lush, theatrical, and strangely inviting records I've heard in such a long time that I couldn't turn away from it.

One of the reasons the release is so unique is because of how it all came together. Composer and Lyricist Anna Weesner, came to singer and performer Charlotte Mundy and producer Charles Mueller, asking if they could come together to write a set of songs.

Well, that's exactly what happened, and the outcome is something that will stay with you for days after you listen to it.

The My Mother In Love: The Summer Sessions is such a unique combination of songwriting approaches and orchestral soundscape. Some songs are brimming with wind instruments like flute or oboe, others that focus on clarinet, viola, or violin, and more guitar-driven that sound like jazz undertone rock songs.

Again, there are literally no two tracks here that are the same or even follow the same approach. This is part of the reason why it literally takes you on this enormous and in-depth sort of musical Journey that spans 14 tracks in length, with some pieces just ranging from a quick 43 seconds as an interlude and others that hit up to almost 6 minutes long.

By the time you get to the 5th or 6th track, you begin to expect the unexpected. You know that it's going to be something impactful, will likely include gorgeous instrumentation and performances, unique lyrics, and this almost classic jazz vocal approach, but you don't know exactly what to expect.

You just sort of sit back and get ready for whatever is coming.

I love albums like this because they keep you on your toes. It's only records that have such a great combination of artistry, bringing elements of three different areas in performance and writing together to create something that breeds an atmosphere all its own.

This is an album that absolutely breeds its own aesthetic. There's nothing like it at all.

Songs like "Lament: Invisible" come through with spacious cinematic intensity and beautifully lush layers of violin and string instruments, along with flute and more, that all just create that thick set of textual layers, bringing you into that soundscape with such gracefulness and unique allure.

Meanwhile, songs like "Argument" feature plucking stringed instruments and gorgeous vocal approaches that feel like classical, cinematic, chamber, Jazz, and contemporary all came together to create something.

Again, you can get pulled into the lyrical concepts behind these songs, and this is a conceptual record as a whole. This is only one of the reasons why I suggest listening to it from start to finish.

This is a release that speaks to you, tells stories and particular ways, bends genres at free will, and creates a theatrical underbelly that lets you visualize certain aspects of the record as songs unfold before your ears.

It is something that, if listened to with headphones on, can change you. When you listen to the full album from start to finish with headphones on, in my opinion, you get the best experience. The experience this record was meant to give.

There's a lot of emotion behind the record, showing face differently with certain pieces, and this is a complete set of pieces that definitely have a lot to offer in the way of enticement and storytelling.

An absolutely gorgeous set of songs that did an outstanding job of swallowing me up and surprising me non-stop, do not miss My Mother In Love: The Summer Sessions.

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