089 ALTER.NATION.MiX weekly favtraX 31-05-2020

ALTER.NATION #89

Andreya Casablanca, Nicole Atkins, Sweet Whirl, PINS, Deerhoof, Mrs. Piss, Linda Guilala, Jade Hairpins, Varsity, Baths, The Flaming Lips, Kacey Musgraves, Mild Orange

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"Talk About It"

Known as half of Berlin-based indie duo "Gurr", Andreya Casablanca's solo project is an experiment with genres outside of her comfort zone. Her own songs melt garage rock guitar with Linn Drums, a little bit of 2000s MTV dance music and poppy vocals.
Andreya Casablanca - Talk About It
Andreya Casablanca is one half of the Berlin garage-pop duo Gurr. And she’s also a solo artist. Because Casablanca just released her debut solo single “Talk About It,” a groove-heavy dance-pop tune that the swaps the guitars out for synthesizers. In a press release, she cites diverse artists including Grimes, Princess Nokia, Tyler, The Creator, Thee Oh Sees, Dua Lipa, Lady Gaga, Angel Olsen, and Crumb as influences...

Rich-voiced noir pop from this respected New Jersey-born singer/songwriter. With her throaty vibrato and lush pop orchestrations contributing to a self-professed "pop noir" sound...
Nicole Atkins- Italian Ice / Domino
...She follows up three years later with the also retro-minded Italian Ice. However, whereas Goodnight Rhonda Lee included collaborations with Chris Isaak and retro-soul production team Niles City Sound, the follow-up involves representatives of classic soul itself. Recorded at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in Alabama, Italian Ice features bassist David Hood and keyboardist Spooner Oldham of the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, both of whom recorded with Aretha Franklin and Percy Sledge, just to name two. Other prime guests here include, from the indie era, Spoon's Britt Daniel, the Civil Wars' John Paul White, and Seth Avett as well as members of the Dap-Kings and the Bad Seeds. It was co-produced by Atkins and Alabama Shakes member Ben Tanner...

Wry, sophisticated adult-alternative pop from Esther Edquist, formerly of dream pop group Superstar.
Sweet Whirl - How Much Works / Sweetness
Leading up to How Much Works, the output of Australian musician Esther Edquist underwent quite a transformation. The hazy, downcast dream pop of her band Superstar was followed by an experimental album consisting of only voice and bass (2016's O.K. Permanent Wave, her first release as Sweet Whirl). Unpredictably to outsiders, her solo work shifted toward more structured, melody-centric songwriting with a classic '60s-'70s influence for the 2019 EP Love Songs & Poetry. She uses that still-dreamy EP as a launching point for How Much Works, her first album for Chapter Music and official Sweet Whirl debut. Opening the record with a spacious arrangement of piano, keyboard, staccato bass, and crisp snare instead of the EP's reverberating guitar, "Sweetness" adds a commanding lead vocal line, organ tones, and vocal harmony for a mellow, jazzy pop that has much more in common with Joni Mitchell than with Superstar.

Manchester-based trio who play gritty yet glamorous post-punk with a female perspective. 
PINS - Hot Slick / Hot Slick
Manchester trio Pins spent the first half of the 2010s as a four-piece who made drone-heavy indie-pop... in the time since, they’ve changed their lineup, collaborated with Iggy Pop, taken on the production skills of the Kills’ Jamie Hince, and leaned heavily into disco and post-punk influences. The result is Hot Slick, a self-released album of 10 airy songs that hinge on earworm 1960s girl-group melodies and a new surge of bright-eyed synths. . The result is a revitalising jolt for the band. The girl-gang chants of Set Me Off and Bad Girls Forever are enjoyably defiant... Lead single Hot Slick is a stand-out track for its driving bassline and cheery harmonies...

Highly revered indie rockers from San Francisco who play fractured, whimsical noise pop with an avant-garde edge.
Deerhoof - Future Teenage Cave Artists / Sympathy For the Baby Boo
...On Future Teenage Cave Artists, they explore what happens when that fight is lost. As Deerhoof dives into the messes that younger generations have to clean up, and art's role in the process, they sound rawer than they have in years... Future Teenage Cave Artists' startling sound feels like a call to action, even if some of its most stunning songs document how humanity is continually thwarted by destructive impulses... The contrasts that have always made Deerhoof thrillingly unlike any other band heighten the album's unpredictability, whether it's the way the boogie-rock riffs jump out of the rubble on "Sympathy for the Baby Boo"...

Heavy, hard-hitting yet atmospheric music from guitarist/vocalist Chelsea Wolfe and drummer Jess Gowrie. A collaboration between Chelsea Wolfe and Jess Gowrie, Mrs. Piss is a dark, hard-hitting act whose music is steeped in the doom-struck thunder of metal, the sinister contemplation of goth, the insistent attack of industrial, and the noisy intelligence of indie rock. 
Mrs. Piss - Self-Surgery / Self-Surgery
...But the driving force behind the record were the drums of Jess Gowrie. Wolfe and Gowrie’s musical chemistry has grown over time, and now receives some deserved deeper exploration with their newly formed side project Mrs. Piss. The resulting sound is uniquely enamouring, with a style that both compiles and builds upon their collective discographies... It is this perfectly-balanced merging of ideas between two collaborative partners that makes the release work as well as it does. The way both members’ talents combine to create something new not only to the musicians themselves but to the music scene at large is perhaps the perfect example of how to do a collaborative project right....

Spanish indie pop act mixing elements of shoegaze/dream pop and energetic synth pop, Linda Guilala have continuously explored new sonic directions while refining their style of catchy yet deeply introspective songwriting, with lyrics focusing on subjects like social anxiety, alienation, and self-doubt.
Linda Guilala - Espacio de Tiempo (2009-2019) / Mucho Mejor
Emerging from the ashes of punky indie pop act Juniper Moon in 2005, Linda Guilala started out like a slightly moodier sibling of the former band before drastically changing up their sound on subsequent releases, becoming heavier, noisier, and spacier while writing increasingly darker, more personal lyrics. Espacio de Tiempo (2009-2019) collects 78 minutes' worth of highlights from the two full-lengths and numerous singles and EPs the band released during that time period, and while a lengthy, career-to-date-spanning compilation might seem like a strange move for such a relatively obscure band, listening makes it clear that this a tremendously talented, creative group who deserve wider recognition...

Jonah Falco and Mike Haliechuk, pop foraging with analog acoustics and electronic landscaping. Jade Hairpins is Jonah Falco, Mike Haliechuk, Tamsin M Leach, and Jack Goldstein.
Jade Hairpins - Harmony Avenue / Father Coin
Jade Hairpins is the work of two members of the band Fucked Up, and if anyone is looking to them for the same kind of fiery punk drama, they are barking up the wrong tree. Drummer Jonah Falco and guitarist/vocalist Mike Haliechuk's band is instead influenced by highly danceable post-punk, rambunctious indie pop, and post-Postcard Orange Juice... "Father Coin" injects a little punk attitude into the formula with good results...

Sweet-natured indie pop about the everyday from a Chicago five-piece led by Stef Smith. Varsity's sweet-natured indie pop about the everyday seamlessly balances bright and wistful guitar hooks.
Varsity - Fine Forever / Runaway
The third studio album by Chicago's Varsity, Fine Forever slightly sharpens the focus on the group's amiable indie pop with help from producer Ben Lumsdaine (Amy O, Major Murphy). It's their first album of original material for Run for Cover Records. The band is wholly recognizable here, though, on an especially compassionate outing that was conceived as a series of modern-day vignettes by lead singer and songwriter Stef Smith... The main takeaways from Fine Forever, though, are catchy tunes of a nature fit for commuting, housework, and hikes and the sense of satisfaction derived from its persistent, light-handed humanity.

The project of producer Will Wiesenfeld (also of Geotic), Baths specializes in intricate, beat-heavy electronic pop.
Baths - Pop Music/False B-Sides II / Sex
The intricate, intimate electronic pop project of Los Angeles-area producer Will Wiesenfeld, Baths immerses listeners in atmospheric songs equally inspired by fantasy and real life...  In May 2020, he issued Baths' Pop Music/False B-Sides II. A set of tracks recorded during the years between Obsidian and Romaplasm that featured newly written lyrics, it arrived on Wiesenfeld's own Basement's Basement label along with a remastered reissue of Pop Music/False B-Sides.

Ever-evolving indie rockers, led by Wayne Coyne, who became critical darlings for their discordant, psychedelia-tinged garage rock.
The Flaming Lips feat. Kacey Musgraves - Flowers Of Neptune 6
... they’re back with a new track all of their own named “Flowers Of Neptune 6,” featuring fellow psychedelic luminary Kacey Musgraves. In a press release, Coyne writes:
“Flowers Of Neptune 6″ track started off as a very evocative series of melodies that Steven Drozd had woven together. The first time he played it for me I was stunned by its emotional flow. The 3 sections (well they seem like sections to me) seemed to hint at an older, mature mind reflecting back into a journey from younger innocence then starting to learn and understand and keeps going into the panic of becoming one with the world. The opening lyric “Yellow sun is going down so slow…Doing acid and watching the light-bugs glow like tiny spaceships in a row…” is the coolest thing I’ll ever know…and is a combination of blissful, innocent, psychedelic experiences that Steven and Kacey Musgraves (she sings harmony with me on the track) and myself all discussed.

Breezy, jangling dream pop band based in Dunedin, New Zealand. Formed in Dunedin in 2016 by childhood friends Josh Mehrtens (vocals, guitar) and Josh Reid (guitar), the two were later joined by bassist Tom Kelk and drummer Jack Ferguson. Choosing the name Mild Orange for the color's ability to inspire "a heightened sense of optimism"
Mild Orange - Mild Orange / In Flight (Two)
The appeal of Kiwi four-piece Mild Orange is indicated rather clearly by their name. The Dunedin band's specific brand of breezy bedroom pop plays just a few shades mellower than their bright primary color would suggest. Formed in 2016 by lifelong friends Josh Mehrtens (vocals, guitar) and Josh Reid (guitar), they made a rapid ascent on the streaming platforms with their self-recorded 2018 debut... While they've garnered a significant following in New Zealand, they now set their sights on the rest of the globe with this eponymous sophomore set. Produced, recorded, and mixed once again by frontman Mehrtens, Mild Orange's formula remains relatively unchanged, relying on a mix of glassy reverberating guitar tones, introspective lyrics, and pleasantly melodic jangle pop...

Andreya Casablanca, Nicole Atkins, Sweet Whirl, PINS, Deerhoof, Mrs. Piss, Linda Guilala, Jade Hairpins, Varsity, Baths, The Flaming Lips, Kacey Musgraves, Mild Orange

PnM:MiX / eLECTRONiC:MiX < 2020 so far

EMOTIONS PnM.MiX / eLECTRONiC:MiX < 2020 so far

1. Nídia - Emotions
2. Four Tet - Something in the Sadness
3. Populous - Out of Space
4. Emancipator - Dodo
5. Ital Tek - Diamond Child
6. Cmon - Dreamfucking
7. Jackie Lynn - Diamond Glue
8. Maserati - Killing Time
9. Nathan - Eris & Dysnomia
10. Yves Tumor - Asteroid Blues
11. Activity - Auto Sad
12. The Orb - House of Narcotics (Opium Wars Mix)
13. The Wants - Hydra
14. Lorelle Meets the Obsolete - (Cc Crain Remix)
15. Helen Money - Brave One
16. Ultraista - Tin King
17. Sam Gendel - In a Sentimental Mood
18. CocoRosie - Where Did All the Soldiers Go
19. Islet - Good Grief
20. Phantogram - Mister Impossible
21. Caribou - Like I Loved You
22. Daniel Avery / Alessandro Cortini - Illusion of Time

27-05-2020 > BLUES:MiX # 33 blues(y) songs from the BLUES circle 1983-1971

i'LL PLAY THE BLUES FOR YOU > BLUES:MiX # 33 blues(y) songs from the BLUES circle 1983-1971 # Albert King, Jessie Mae Hemphill, Muddy Waters, J.J. Cale, Albert King, John Lee Hooker, Houston Stackhouse, Hound Dog Taylor, Elvin Bishop, Free, Long John Baldry, Ten Years After

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1983-1971

One of the most important post-war blues guitarists, renowned for his massive tone and unique way of squeezing bends out of a guitar string.

Albert King 

I'll Play the Blues for You, Pts. 1-2 (Jerry Beach) 7:18

Can't You See What You're Doing to Me 4:17

from Stax Profiles Rec. 1968-1983

As part of the Stax Profiles series, blues guitarist Albert King is spotlighted with material recorded in the late '60s and early '70s for the Memphis-based label. Since this midline compilation only contains 11 cuts, it's easy to dwell on what was left off...  Without a doubt, the main jewel of this set is the previously unreleased version of "Born Under a Bad Sign" recorded on December 6, 1983, and featuring King disciple and then up-and-coming guitar legend Stevie Ray Vaughan. For whatever reason, this version was left off the King/Vaughan collaboration In Session.

Mississippi blueswoman Jesse Mae Hemphill specialized in a folk-derived non-commercial blues indigenous to her region. A Mississippi singer/guitarist, Jessie Mae Hemphill weaves strong Delta traditions into her idiosyncratic style. Hemphill comes from a musical background -- reportedly, her grandfather was recorded in the fields by Alan Lomax in the '40s. Jessie Mae learned how to play guitar as a child by watching her relatives perform. Throughout the '60s and '70s, she sang with various Mississippi bar bands. In the early '80s, she decided to pursue a solo career.

Jessie Mae Hemphill 

She-Wolf (Jessie Mae Hemphill) 4:41

Jump, Baby, Jump (Jessie Mae Hemphill) 3:23

Black Cat Bone (Jessie Mae Hemphill) 4:57

Boogie 'Side the Road (Jessie Mae Hemphill) 3:47

from She-Wolf 1981

This compact disc reissue gathers up all the original tracks from Jessie Mae's 1980 debut album for the French Vogue label along with four remixed bonus tracks, all seeing their first domestic release. Recorded by folklorist Dr. David Evans (who also contributes second guitar on 13 of the 15 tracks here) in various locales around Memphis and Mississippi, the music stays down-home and primal throughout. There's a strong sense of rhythm that permeates this record, whether it comes from the fife and drum-derived percussion work of Calvin Jackson and Joe Hicks or simply Jessie Mae's own foot-operated tambourine driving the beat home... The blues, real and raw.

088 ALTER.NATION.MiX weekly favtraX 24-05-2020

ALTER.NATION #88

Brigid Dawson and The Mothers Network, Eve Owen, Woods, The Sonic Dawn,  Badly Drawn Boy, Kidbug, Jetstream Pony, Blake Mills, Khruangbin, L’Eclair, Damu the Fudgemunk / Raw Poetic / Archie Shepp, Deradoorian

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"B a l l e t   o f   A p e s"

After working with Thee Oh Sees and a variety of other bands, vocalist and songwriter Brigid Dawson struck out solo with a witchy, slow-burning style modeled on '60s acid rock and psychedelia. Dawson worked with a cast of indie all-stars on Ballet of Apes, her 2020 solo debut released under the moniker Brigid Dawson and the Mothers Network.
Brigid Dawson and The Mothers Network - Ballet of Apes / Ballet of Apes
...On her first solo album, Ballet of Apes, Dawson (joined by a plethora of indie guest stars collected under the banner "the Mothers Network"), brings a similar energy to that of the acid-damaged songwriting of Memory of a Cut Off Head. Instead of that album's chamber folk leanings, however, Ballet of Apes puts Dawson's vocal presence front and center on seven tunes that range from witchy psychedelia to mutant jazz-rock grooves. The album was the result of several recording sessions in different locales. Dawson collaborated with Mikey Young in Australia, the Sunwatchers in Brooklyn, and members of Sic Alps, Peacers, and Fresh & Onlys in San Francisco. All of Dawson's collaborators wisely play in the background, however, and the seven songs flow cohesively through shadowy moods that all center around her powerful vocals...

Subtle electronics, effects, and field recordings fortify the brooding, amber-tinted indie folk of Eve Owen. Her 2020 debut album, Don't Let the Ink Dry, was produced by the National's Aaron Dessner.
Eve Owen - Don't Let the Ink Dry / Lover Not Today
... It's a warm, textured indie folk that seamlessly incorporates electronics as part of its consistently brooding, sepia-toned temper. Also lending their talents to the record were such high-caliber guests as Thomas Bartlett and Rob Moose, both accomplished indie producers in their own right... It's an album anchored in unsettled rumination, with compellingly grainy surfaces that reveal either the expertise of its accomplished collaborators or a sophistication beyond Owen's years -- likely both.

Underground psychedelic folk-rockers who alternate between pastoral songcraft and otherworldly strangeness.
Woods - Strange to Explain /  Where Do You Go When You Dream?
...Their 11th proper studio album, Strange to Explain, reflects all of this life in progress, standing as the most restrained, thoughtful, and varied record in a massive discography already well-stocked with thoughtful songwriting and wildly varied arrangement choices... Much of Strange to Explain isn't about Woods breaking new ground, but perfecting the strengths they've spent years developing. Driven by warbly synth melodies and clean rhythms, "Where Do You Go When You Dream?" is one of their strongest songs to date. It patiently moves from slinky verses into a chorus built on wistful acoustic guitar chords and the kind of dreamy melodies Earl excels at...

Danish retro-rock combo with a knack for pairing jazzy, sitar-laced pop with cavernous, psych-blasted acid rock.
The Sonic Dawn - Enter the Mirage / Young Love, Old Hate
Arriving just under a year after the release of the Danish psych-rockers third studio effort, 2019's liquid light show-ready Eclipse, Enter the Mirage delivers another tie-dyed blast from the past; a lo-fi, acid-soaked transmission from a mirror dimension where the Summer of Love never ended. Commencing with "Young Love, Old Hate," the hirsute trio goes all-in on the '60s fetishizing, administering copious amounts of noodly guitars and shimmery maracas drenched in analog reverb and delay, and a melodic through-line that echoes Hendrix's "All Along the Watchtower."...

English singer-songwriter Damon Gough has been a popular exponent of low-fi indie since his 2000 debut.
Badly Drawn Boy - Banana Skin Shoes / Banana Skin Shoes
"It's time to break this plaster cast and leave your past behind," Badly Drawn Boy's Damon Gough sings on Banana Skin Shoes. That's no easy feat, especially for an artist who hasn't made an album in a decade. Yet, on his eighth album, Gough manages to move on by trying lots of different, new-to-him sounds and forgiving those who made mistakes in the past -- especially himself. It's been longer than ten years since he's sounded this confident; not coincidentally, he begins Banana Skin Shoes with his boldest statements of purpose. The title track, with its flashy keyboards and funky brass hits, shakes off the hesitancy that shadowed much of his work before his hiatus and lets listeners know right away that this is a new era.

The band seemlessly combine the grunge-y guitar mangling of Dumb Numbers' Adam Harding and the gentle psychedelia of Eeire Wanda's Maria Tadic.
Kidbug - Kidbug / Lovesick
The sound of Kidbug will be familiar to anyone who was alive during the great Grunge deluge of the late '80s/early '90s as well as anyone who might have discovered Nirvana in the years that followed. Adam Harding of Dumb Numbers and Marina Tadic of Eerie Wanda are certainly card carrying members of the former camp, Harding has even made records featuring members of the Melvins and Dinosaur Jr. Kidbug's debut album doesn't delve too much into the harsh or heavy nature of grunge, instead the duo lean more towards the sweet and melodic side... The band (which includes Bobb Bruno of Best Coast on bass and Thor Harris of Swans on drums) doesn't just stick to recreating grunge... Harding and Tadic's vocals blend together perfectly, the guitars mesh together like giant, gnarly gears, the production (unlike a great many of the bands they so clearly admire) is down to earth and clear, and the songs are hookily memorable. In every way, Kidbug comes across like the labor of love that it clearly is, both to a sound and an era and to each other...

Jetstream Pony's hazy noise pop is guided by the airy reflections of lead vocalist Beth Arzy, formerly of groups including Aberdeen and stylistic cousin the Luxembourg Signal.
Jetstream Pony - Jetstream Pony / It's Fine
...After a handful of well-received short-form releases that took on a bouncier demeanor, an expanded four-piece version of Jetstream Pony lean into lusher, dreamier textures and a more reflective energy level on their eponymous full-length debut. It's an approach that places active drums and ringing guitar hooks in a cloudy, harmonic haze surrounding Arzy's still sweet, wistful melodies. The opening track, "It's Fine," is an album highlight and prime example that dives right into layered, sustained guitar atmospheres replete with delay, as lyrics both confront and reassure. The album's frayed nerves and rocky relationships continue on songs...

A highly regarded session guitarist, this Santa Monica-based artist is also a producer and recording artist.
Blake Mills - Mutable Set / Vanishing Twin
...The strange pace of modern life that races while seeming to stand still; individual and societal isolation, climate change, the exterior state of the world and its people, as well as Mills' interior universe. Assisting Mills is a cast of longtime friends and collaborators including Rob Moose, Cass McCombs, Pino Palladino, Patrick Warren, Sam Gendel, and Gabriel Kahane. The album posits Mills as an artist who stands in the no man's land between the singer/songwriter and the sound designer...  "Vanishing Twin" is introduced by Moose's digitally delayed cello atop a rumbling snare and rounded single-string guitar lines creating a loopy vamp. Mills' delivery is clipped, pained, yet fully integrated: "The walls are thin, I hear a pin drop/Somewhere my kin sits on a hilltop/Don’t cry my star, I won’t be far…" as layered guitars, percussion, strings, and keys carry his voice, allowing him deeper entry into the lyric. The mix gradually fills with overdubbed strings, layered drums, mangled electric guitar notes, feedback, and distortion...

Jet-setting Texas trio whose smooth, mainly instrumental music is heavily influenced by Thai rock and funk, among other styles.
Khruangbin - Time (You And I)
...the band are announcing a new album called Mordechai, named after one of Laura Lee Ochoa’s friends who encouraged her to jump from a waterfall. That moment stuck with her, as did the feeling of weightlessness that comes with taking a big leap. The album’s lead single, “Time (You And I),” is groovy and hypnotic, one of the most immediately likable things that the band has put out, with an insistent disco beat and some motivational, nostalgic mantras worming their way throughout. The track, like most of the rest of the songs on Mordechai, feature vocals, a change for the band.

Swiss sextet whose groove-heavy instrumentals effortlessly fuse influences such as Krautrock, funk, and library music.
L’Eclair - Noshtta / Cebando
Swiss six-piece L’Eclair have shared a new EP Noshtta (via Allah Lahs-run label Calico Discos) following 2019’s Sauropoda and their collaborative seven-inch single with The Mauskovic Dance Band. The EP is full of groovy instrumental jams that fuse mind-numbing psych-funk with echoing, synth-laden dub. Here, impressionistic soundscapes run wild—the inescapable grooves contain infinite grains of wisdom and boundless possibility.

Damu the Fudgemunk is an American hip hop music artist and producer from Washington, DC. In addition to his career as a solo artist, music producer, and DJ, he is a member of the groups Y Society and Panacea.
MC Raw Poetic is from Philadelphia. Raw Poetic is a rapper with a smooth, clean delivery that moves from quick-paced syncopation into hooks fluidly.
Saxophonist, composer, playwright, and educator Archie Shepp has been regarded at various times uin his long jazz career, a musical firebrand and cultural radical, a soulful throwback to the jazz tradition, and contemplative veteran explorer and a global jazz statesman.
Damu the Fudgemunk / Raw Poetic / Archie Shepp - Ocean Bridges / Moving Maps
Since beginning his jazz career with the Cecil Taylor Quartet in 1960, saxophonist Archie Shepp has sought to illuminate the influence and evolution of the African Diaspora in modern culture in music, literature (as a poet and playwright), and education (he taught university for 30 years). Ocean Bridges is a collaboration with nephew Jason Moore (rapper/children's author Raw Poetic) and DJ/producer Earl Davis (aka Damu the Fudgemunk). It marks Shepp's first recorded foray into hip-hop... "Moving Maps" weds turntablism, guitar, and Wurlitzer in an airy, spacious mix that showcases Raw Poetic at his smoothest as Shepp blows soul-jazz underneath...

Solo project of singer and multi-instrumentalist Angel Deradoorian, also known for working with Dirty Projectors and Avey Tare.
Deradoorian - It Was Me
Titled “It Was Me,” it might be the darkest, spaciest song of the bunch so far. Over tumbling percussion and quietly droning guitar churns, Deradoorian sings in a ghostly echo coming in from the distance. “What do you want to know about meditation?/ What do you want to know about the brain?/ I only went looking for these things/ When I knew I was going insane,” Deradoorian sings in the first verse. Find The Sun was inspired by a Vipassana meditation retreat through which Deradoorian started to come to a different sense of herself after suffering through a traumatic period of her life. “It Was Me” taps right into that experience and that transformation.

Brigid Dawson and The Mothers Network, Eve Owen, Woods, The Sonic Dawn,  Badly Drawn Boy, Kidbug, Jetstream Pony, Blake Mills, Khruangbin, L’Eclair, Damu the Fudgemunk / Raw Poetic / Archie Shepp, Deradoorian