Growing up is hard to do. It seems that the older one gets, the more necessary and nebulous a sense of purpose becomes, at once essential and hard to define. As moral philosopher Susan Neiman argues, “Growing up is not about when you get a driver’s license or when you can legally drink or even when you get married or have your first child—or even when your parents die.” Rather than the pursuit of individual milestones, growing up is the ceaseless, life-long process of self-determination, of “being able to do this quite difficult balancing act between the ‘is’ and ‘ought.’” Between The Richness, the sophomore LP from Massachusetts quintet Fiddlehead, straddles the existential gulf from ‘is’ to ‘ought’ with confident self-assurance. As opening track “Grief Motif” makes clear, themes of time,...
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