Carving Canyons

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Your support is important because it helps us cover our costs so that we can continue bringing you the independent music journalism you know and trust. AH: That kind of leads me to Madi Diaz – she co-wrote one of the songs with you, and she’s becoming a favorite of mine, too. The woodlands and the tillable acreage, I’ve been doing a lot of conservancy, like getting goats to clean out invasives.

So I think as a musician, what I really hope, even aside from how the critics respond, or the industry, it’s more important to me, I think, that the people who get this music can then use it and apply it to their own experiences and heartaches and process, because I think that’s just such a gift. And not even on purpose, but there was just a ton of women who I wrote with on this record, and I did find there was something much more somehow efficient about that, whether that’s a coincidence or not.I’m just so glad that that was able to work out, because it just adds more life and more perspective. She considers who she is at her most essential, looking back to childhood but also realizing that she can help shape a positive future.

L: When the pandemic started, I was actually living with my ex-partner, who was a farmer, like an actual organic farmer. It is an emotionally raw and open album which provides a glimpse into the psyche of someone who – along with most of the rest of the globe – was forced to visit a temporary world of isolation and desolation that many would now prefer to forget.They need to bring something new without alienating the fans that have been with them from the beginning. I get overwhelmed sometimes about how much I want to listen to something new, and I just don’t get the chance sometimes.