Tender / Wading finds M. Sage in the foothills and pastures of Colorado, writing, recording, and reestablishing a patch of his homeland and identity, one act of sympathetic care informing the next. “Tender of Land,” the lead single and last piece on Sage’s latest album length endeavor, embodies the patience required to revive neglected space. Much like tools used to trim back overgrowth, Sage deploys a sound set that encourages new life, and creates a holistic contrast to Paradise Crick’s synthetic sound-world. Piano (a 1910 Hamilton upright that was left behind in the garage of the home he and his partner moved into), clarinet, and field recordings captured on their property — geese, crickets, and hay trucks — work as one for a sweeping, serene vision of vitality, radical softness, and the reassuring sense of coming home, even if home has changed.