Then again, in this carefully laid out record, the final track, Bird Gerhl, leads quite dramatically to full-fledged climax as our hero searches for and finds wings, finally taking a solo flight.

Contrast this with the pathos of the opener’s fear of falling asleep and that middle place between light/life and darkness/death. Of course, when the album begins again, so does the reality of perhaps having nobody to hold an aching dying head. But then, so does Anohni’s riveting trip towards her airborne epiphany. And on the cover, Candy’s flowers remain in bloom.