Swedish-Canadian folk-pop-rocker Sarah MacDougall breathes life into the airy-fairy flutter of love. Something of a timeless coming-of-age type of song, Blanket Skies marries tight snare hits with her ever-so-gentle voice to ease into this piece, putting emphasis on her lyricism before exploding into fully crafted instrumentation with production growing like branches around the listener.
In Sarah’s first single since 2023, she explores a physically distanced love through the internet, through music, and through hearts. Her whispery, intimate vocals create something of a feeling of running down a warm, grassy hill, something mature in experience but filled with childlike whimsy.
Sarah often has a way of uniting her Swedish origins with her Canadian culture. This is the pinnacle of Canadian music: taking your birthplace, your culture, and your Canadian spirit and unifying them across the board. A piece both intrinsically personal and widely relatable, especially after the pandemic displaced many relationships, creating the distance described by Sarah in this piece.
One is very lucky to love so deeply in this world, particularly in a love that can cross borders, and Sarah directs this experience with such power and vivid arrangements that one can feel her heart pour right into their ears. As the soundtrack to ever-growing love, MacDougall grants us rights to her soul on this must-listen track.
