Cinder Well - "While the Womb Screams Silently"

Photo by Chelsea Moosekian

Cinder Well, aka multi-instrumentalist Amelia Baker, returns with a powerful new single. "While the Womb Screams Silently" is a stripped down and bare single. Baker's vocals are the main focus, while string instruments hold the song down musically. Haunting is a term that gets thrown around in the world of music quite a bit, but "While the Womb Screams Silently" is the definition of that description. Folk is most likely the genre that best fits this song, but that's mostly because of the acoustic instruments being used. The song certainly isn't traditional folk, but Cinder Well has never exactly fit into any specific genre.

Amelia Baker says of her latest single:

"This song is inspired by the movie "Portrait of A Lady On Fire" from director Céline Sciamma. In the film, a woman is arranged to be wed, and because of her intense resistance to the situation, a painter is commissioned to secretly paint her wedding portrait without her knowing. The song is about listening to your inner knowing, which often screams loudly but is ignored for the sake of conforming - constantly trying to break out of the restraints and projections of patriarchy while stumbling over new ones and internalized ones along the way - 'pulling at an endless thread of thistle - whose hooks and briars they catch things you thought you couldn’t miss em / while the womb screams silently for you to listen'."

You can watch the video for "While the Womb Screams Silently" below. A Blooming Body is due out July 17 via Hen House Studios, and is available for pre-order here. For more on Cinder Well, check out the artist on Instagram and Facebook.