Too Many Churches is a timely song about pro-choice. Swedish songstress Sofia Talvik is peeking through the looking glass at the recent events in the U.S with the eyes of a spectator with a different perspective.
Reminiscing of her many tours through the U.S she sings ”Driving through the country I see houses falling down, people living under bridges, but there’s five churches in that town”. The lyric video created for the songs shows some 40 different churches filmed from her tour bus window on a drive from Palatka, FL to Tuscaloosa, AL. And that’s not even all she passed on the way.
”I tried to film as many as possible, but sometimes I didn’t get the camera up quickly enough, or it was hard to film because cars were in the way”, Sofia says.
Still it paints a clear picture as she sings ”There’s too many churches, and too little love in this world today”.
You can ask yourself why a Swedish artist would sing about events so tightly associated to the U.S, but there’s a ripple effect in these things, and decisions like these effect all women worldwide, and maybe there is a special need for theoutside perspective to show that it’s not just about women in the U.S, it’s about women’s rights period.
About Sofia Talvik
On the road promoting her critically acclaimed fresh album ”Paws of a Bear” early 2020, the pandemic unleashed, and cut her tour short including an official showcase at SxSW. She is now back on the road in the Midwest and North-East with stops at Porcupine Mountains Music Festival where she’s headlining the chalet stage, amongst many other prestigious venues.
“Paws of a Bear, finds Talvik taking a more Americana-flavored approach – influenced by Jason Isbell, Valerie June and others” – Billboard.com
Sofia immediately went on to the online concert platform, performing for her audience through Facebook and Youtube, soon getting invited to perform at many online festivals in Europe and the U.S. In the summer of 2020 she released an unplugged version of ”Paws of a Bear” featuring two previously unreleased tracks.
”A delightful companion piece and complement to the full studio recording, it’s most definitely one of those bear necessities.” – Folk Radio UK
