From the exceptional The Calm Beneath the Noise”, the simply gorgeous Seasons wins my “pastoral track of 2024” award, and this in a huge field. As I said in my album review:

“Seasons is a pastoral delight, a mood which I believe is influenced by Paul Simon’s work, and absolutely rooted within the human experience. The piano is so sweet, an acoustic guitar played as a lead rhythm, and some very delicate orchestration taking us through the seasons influencing the love, which kept the showers at bay, at the core of this quite sumptuous piece of music, which I embed below”.