Alice Gold's latest release, "Both Hands," is about finding something solid when everything else is up in the air. The repetition of hands, building the morning, cradling a tired head, steering someone to safety, places a human, if intimate, center at the heart of the song. It is not a surrender to chaos, but a gentle urging to accept what is in front of you, "Take it now with both hands." The song has emotional scale with its larger image of an upside-down world and tangled skies, but Gold keeps returning to connection and grounding. In the end, though, "Both Hands" feels like a reminder that sometimes help begins with simply holding on.
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