meka

Like the tarot’s major arcana, The Rabbit, the latest album from Melissa Lingo, aka meka, can be experienced as a kind of tarot reading, a mystical, alluring set of pathways into the human mind, a comment on fate, a dream with a cast of obscure characters. It’s no great stretch to put meka right up there with her heroes in the pantheon of folk songwriters.

meka is Melissa Lingo, an American multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter. She is our latest ‘Off the Shelf’ guest, a series where we ask artists to present objects from their homes and talk about them. Her latest album, The Rabbit (out tomorrow on Dumont Dumont), is profoundly shaped by her experience of living with chronic illness, transforming hardship into tender yet illuminating songs that balance grief and hope.