Maria Somerville’s new album, Luster, digs deep into the idea of what happens when you stop yearning for home and find yourself back in the area that raised you. For Somerville that is Connemara, a mountainous rural town on the west coast of Ireland known for its gothic-revival castle which has lay in ruins since the 1930s. When she made her 2019 debut All My People, Somerville was living in Dublin and feeling homesick, something reflected in an album of hushed folk music soaked in reverb and delay.⁠ ⁠ While working on the album Somerville also took on a position as nts_radio's resident early morning shift, broadcasting live twice a week from 7-9 a.m. local time. The Early Bird Show feels as much a part of Somerville’s work as her music. It is during these shows that she slowly ushers listeners into their days, playing an eclectic mix of folk, ambient, and dream pop to the bleary-eyed. Sometimes, in playlists filled with artists such as Broadcast, Ichiko Aioba, and Grouper, she drops h...