Carla Patullo doubles down on a GRAMMY win. Fresh off back-to-back trophies, she closes her new album NOMADICA with the devastating โFly Under,โ a collaboration with Martha Wainwright that comes like a final exhale after a long, hard journey through grief.
The record itself is built from the shock of losing her mother in a car accident, moving from the jagged edge of that trauma toward something like acceptance. Along the way, Patullo leans on all her powers as a film composer and songwriter, weaving in the voices of Tonality and the Scorchio Quartet to map a sound-world where chamber music, ambience, and raw emotion share the same sky.
By the time โFly Underโ arrives, youโve already walked through storms of memory and fear; this closer feels like stepping into clear air. It begins almost weightless, with strings so bright and precise theyโre like a silver thread drawn across the horizon, while a soft, steady piano ripples underneath, never showy, just breathing. Then that voice enters, high with a little grain in the tone.
As the song unfolds, the arrangement slowly widens, as the quartet swells in gentle arcs, harmonies flicker in and out like distant lights, and subtle production details keep the track drifting forward rather than floating away. What could have been pure sorrow instead feels like a fragile courage, the moment you stop fighting the weight of loss and let it carry you somewhere new.
โFly Underโ glides out, leaving NOMADICA suspended between mourning and possibilityโand leaving you not crushed, but oddly lifted.
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Review by: Naomi Joan