Like fellow empath Rosanne Cash, Germano reserves a special place in her soul for the lullaby, revisiting the form in various guises over the album's 30 minutes. Punctuated at points by a forlorn piano motif that jumps in unexpectedly, Liquid Pig explores the fantasies and hopes of an unnamed soul, simultaneously mocking and defending the need for a protective inner universe. In keeping with the aesthetic, the album's soundscape is all distanced piano and reverb with surprisingly little violin, although Germano lets in a little light with the country-tinged "It's Party Time" and the hopeful closer "... to dream" -- the latter added at the urging, Germano observed during a recent performance, of her own mother, who wanted the record to end on an upbeat note.