Wider Circles is a 2015 album by Rising Appalachia, the Atlanta-born duo of sisters Leah and Chloe Smith, whose music draws from old-time Appalachian tradition, world music, and social-movement folk without fitting cleanly into any of those categories. The Smith sisters build their sound on layered vocal harmonies, acoustic stringed instruments, and a sensibility shaped by global travel and political engagement alongside their Appalachian musical inheritance. Wider Circles is among their most fully realized albums, confident in the hybrid aesthetic they had been developing since their early recordings.
Tracklist
- 1 Novels of Acquaintance 6:28
- 2 Lean In 3:38
- 3 Fall on My Knees alt version 4:44
- 4 Rivermouth 3:53
- 5 Oh Death alt version 6:48
- 6 An Invitation 2:40
- 7 Medicine 4:26
- 8 Find Your Way 4:46
- 9 Synchronicity 4:09
- 10 Cripple Creek alt version 4:52
- 11 Condensation (Interlude) 1:18
- 12 Spirit's Cradle 4:44
- 13 Wider Circles 5:13
- 14 Bright Morning Stars alt version 6:37
- 15 Stromboli 4:45