Loren Berí's latest release, "Stagehand," is about the relief of walking away from performance and being the person underneath it. It marries lush chamber textures with catchy indie songwriting and uses inventive storytelling to make its central idea feel intimate rather than heavy-handed. Berí's charismatic performance brings personality to the song's meditation on what happens to exaggerated versions of ourselves when we finally let them go. The backstage metaphor is particularly fitting for the sensation of not being the protagonist in your own story, and discovering a route of unexpected beauty. It is honest, quietly unencumbered, thoughtful, and melodic, and that is its greatest strength.
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