Midwestern artist Lissie is a multi-talented tour de force who will release her new Americana-tinged indie folk album "Carving Canyons" on September 16. Ahead of the release she has unveiled the first song two songs "Flowers" and "Night Moves". Debuted by FLOOD Magazine, the haunting sun-soaked song Night Moves channels Fleetwood Mac grandeur as it explores sensory memory and considering multiple realities vs one's own point of view when navigating heartbreak.
"Carving Canyons" is about looking within while dealing with the uncertainty of the future--finding hope in personal and worldly adversity, no matter what the forecast might say. Inspired by her incredible intergenerational female friend group and the nature that surrounded her, Lissie traveled to Nashville and co-wrote much of the album with a majority of female-identifying songwriters--including Bre Kennedy, Madi Diaz, Morgan Nagler, Natalie Hemby, Kate York, and Sarah Buxton--who also contribute additional vocals throughout the album.
"Carving Canyons" is Lissie's first full-length album since her UK Top 10 album "Castles" in 2018. In 2010, her 1st full length album "Catching A Tiger" unassumingly established Lissie as a global voice. Lissie has recently appeared in TV shows Twin Peaks and Loudermilk as well as co-owns the music genre themed popcorn company Otts Pops Indie Pop and is involved with land conservation.
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For Lissie, her past-the last decade or so, to be specific-is something still very much alive and open to interpretation and rephrasing. With the approaching release of When I'm Alone: The Piano Retrospective, the singer is poised to show listeners that her past is hardly static, that the songs she wrote nearly 10 years ago are still fresh and vibrant, evoking feelings old and new.
When you look back on your past accomplishments, how do you feel? Do you have a strong sense of nostalgia-an urgent longing to bring things back to how they were? Are there things you wish you could've done differently? What would you celebrate, and what would you change?
In the eyes of the midwestern songstress, who in recent years made a conscientious return to her roots with the purchase of some 50 acres in northeastern Iowa, the operative metaphor at work in her career-and in the creation of the retrospective album-is something deeply entropic: gardening.
"When you garden," she says, thoughtfully, "it's like all of the things you eat and grow are beautiful, and as they die and decompose, that carnage becomes the food for the plants you grow next year. When you're out in nature and there's four seasons, you see the cycle... It spurs my creativity to see how life becomes death becomes life. It's this beautiful, comforting thing because it's a constant."
And that entropic beauty shines through in her work on When I'm Alone. When you listen to the lush, atmospheric arrangements of Lissie's best-loved, most career-defining tunes, you can almost hear the "carnage" of each past moment and remembered feeling coalescing to form this beautiful, dark tempest of emotion and memory.
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"Carving Canyons" is about looking within while dealing with the uncertainty of the future--finding hope in personal and worldly adversity, no matter what the forecast might say. Inspired by her incredible intergenerational female friend group and the nature that surrounded her, Lissie traveled to Nashville and co-wrote much of the album with a majority of female-identifying songwriters--including Bre Kennedy, Madi Diaz, Morgan Nagler, Natalie Hemby, Kate York, and Sarah Buxton--who also contribute additional vocals throughout the album.
"Carving Canyons" is Lissie's first full-length album since her UK Top 10 album "Castles" in 2018. In 2010, her 1st full length album "Catching A Tiger" unassumingly established Lissie as a global voice. Lissie has recently appeared in TV shows Twin Peaks and Loudermilk as well as co-owns the music genre themed popcorn company Otts Pops Indie Pop and is involved with land conservation.
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For Lissie, her past-the last decade or so, to be specific-is something still very much alive and open to interpretation and rephrasing. With the approaching release of When I'm Alone: The Piano Retrospective, the singer is poised to show listeners that her past is hardly static, that the songs she wrote nearly 10 years ago are still fresh and vibrant, evoking feelings old and new.
When you look back on your past accomplishments, how do you feel? Do you have a strong sense of nostalgia-an urgent longing to bring things back to how they were? Are there things you wish you could've done differently? What would you celebrate, and what would you change?
In the eyes of the midwestern songstress, who in recent years made a conscientious return to her roots with the purchase of some 50 acres in northeastern Iowa, the operative metaphor at work in her career-and in the creation of the retrospective album-is something deeply entropic: gardening.
"When you garden," she says, thoughtfully, "it's like all of the things you eat and grow are beautiful, and as they die and decompose, that carnage becomes the food for the plants you grow next year. When you're out in nature and there's four seasons, you see the cycle... It spurs my creativity to see how life becomes death becomes life. It's this beautiful, comforting thing because it's a constant."
And that entropic beauty shines through in her work on When I'm Alone. When you listen to the lush, atmospheric arrangements of Lissie's best-loved, most career-defining tunes, you can almost hear the "carnage" of each past moment and remembered feeling coalescing to form this beautiful, dark tempest of emotion and memory.
Midwestern artist Lissie is a multi-talented tour de force who will release her new Americana-tinged indie folk album "Carving Canyons" on September 16. Ahead of the release she has unveiled the first song two songs "Flowers" and "Night Moves". Debuted by FLOOD Magazine, the haunting sun-soaked song Night Moves channels Fleetwood Mac grandeur as it explores sensory memory and considering multiple realities vs one's own point of view when navigating heartbreak.
"Carving Canyons" is about looking within while dealing with the uncertainty of the future--finding hope in personal and worldly adversity, no matter what the forecast might say. Inspired by her incredible intergenerational female friend group and the nature that surrounded her, Lissie traveled to Nashville and co-wrote much of the album with a majority of female-identifying songwriters--including Bre Kennedy, Madi Diaz, Morgan Nagler, Natalie Hemby, Kate York, and Sarah Buxton--who also contribute additional vocals throughout the album.
"Carving Canyons" is Lissie's first full-length album since her UK Top 10 album "Castles" in 2018. In 2010, her 1st full length album "Catching A Tiger" unassumingly established Lissie as a global voice. Lissie has recently appeared in TV shows Twin Peaks and Loudermilk as well as co-owns the music genre themed popcorn company Otts Pops Indie Pop and is involved with land conservation.
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For Lissie, her past-the last decade or so, to be specific-is something still very much alive and open to interpretation and rephrasing. With the approaching release of When I'm Alone: The Piano Retrospective, the singer is poised to show listeners that her past is hardly static, that the songs she wrote nearly 10 years ago are still fresh and vibrant, evoking feelings old and new.
When you look back on your past accomplishments, how do you feel? Do you have a strong sense of nostalgia-an urgent longing to bring things back to how they were? Are there things you wish you could've done differently? What would you celebrate, and what would you change?
In the eyes of the midwestern songstress, who in recent years made a conscientious return to her roots with the purchase of some 50 acres in northeastern Iowa, the operative metaphor at work in her career-and in the creation of the retrospective album-is something deeply entropic: gardening.
"When you garden," she says, thoughtfully, "it's like all of the things you eat and grow are beautiful, and as they die and decompose, that carnage becomes the food for the plants you grow next year. When you're out in nature and there's four seasons, you see the cycle... It spurs my creativity to see how life becomes death becomes life. It's this beautiful, comforting thing because it's a constant."
And that entropic beauty shines through in her work on When I'm Alone. When you listen to the lush, atmospheric arrangements of Lissie's best-loved, most career-defining tunes, you can almost hear the "carnage" of each past moment and remembered feeling coalescing to form this beautiful, dark tempest of emotion and memory.
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"Carving Canyons" is about looking within while dealing with the uncertainty of the future--finding hope in personal and worldly adversity, no matter what the forecast might say. Inspired by her incredible intergenerational female friend group and the nature that surrounded her, Lissie traveled to Nashville and co-wrote much of the album with a majority of female-identifying songwriters--including Bre Kennedy, Madi Diaz, Morgan Nagler, Natalie Hemby, Kate York, and Sarah Buxton--who also contribute additional vocals throughout the album.
"Carving Canyons" is Lissie's first full-length album since her UK Top 10 album "Castles" in 2018. In 2010, her 1st full length album "Catching A Tiger" unassumingly established Lissie as a global voice. Lissie has recently appeared in TV shows Twin Peaks and Loudermilk as well as co-owns the music genre themed popcorn company Otts Pops Indie Pop and is involved with land conservation.
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For Lissie, her past-the last decade or so, to be specific-is something still very much alive and open to interpretation and rephrasing. With the approaching release of When I'm Alone: The Piano Retrospective, the singer is poised to show listeners that her past is hardly static, that the songs she wrote nearly 10 years ago are still fresh and vibrant, evoking feelings old and new.
When you look back on your past accomplishments, how do you feel? Do you have a strong sense of nostalgia-an urgent longing to bring things back to how they were? Are there things you wish you could've done differently? What would you celebrate, and what would you change?
In the eyes of the midwestern songstress, who in recent years made a conscientious return to her roots with the purchase of some 50 acres in northeastern Iowa, the operative metaphor at work in her career-and in the creation of the retrospective album-is something deeply entropic: gardening.
"When you garden," she says, thoughtfully, "it's like all of the things you eat and grow are beautiful, and as they die and decompose, that carnage becomes the food for the plants you grow next year. When you're out in nature and there's four seasons, you see the cycle... It spurs my creativity to see how life becomes death becomes life. It's this beautiful, comforting thing because it's a constant."
And that entropic beauty shines through in her work on When I'm Alone. When you listen to the lush, atmospheric arrangements of Lissie's best-loved, most career-defining tunes, you can almost hear the "carnage" of each past moment and remembered feeling coalescing to form this beautiful, dark tempest of emotion and memory.
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