Heather Maloney — Soil in the Sky (June 14, 2019) 
Location: Northampton, MA
Album release: June 14, 2019
Record Label: Signature Sounds Recordings
Duration: 40:42
Tracks:
01 Waking Up From a Nightmare 0:21
02 Enigma (feat. Rachael Price) [Explicit] 2:42
03 All in Your Name 4:31
04 Porch Story 0:09
05 Oklahoma Lullaby 3:48
06 We Were Together (feat. Taylor Goldsmith) 4:45
07 Hangin’ On 4:14
08 One Hundred Pennies 3:41
09 In Between 3:43
10 What I Don’t Know, Too (feat. Hayley Reardon) 3:48
11 Wild as a Birdsong 4:22
12 Backwards and Blindfolded 4:38
Notes:
⦿ Rachael Price (born August 30, 1985) is the lead singer for the band Lake Street Dive and graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music. She was born in Australia and grew up in Tennessee. She is the great~granddaughter of Seventh~day Adventist leader George McCready Price, the granddaughter of Hollywood actor John Shelton, and the daughter of composer and conductor Tom Price.
⦿ Taylor Zachary Goldsmith (born August 16, 1985) is an American singer~songwriter, guitarist, and record producer, who is best known as the lead singer and chief songwriter of the American folk rock band Dawes.
⦿ Hayley Reardon is fascinated by the mystery of knowing. Her latest release, entitled Where I Know You, artfully explores what it means to see and understand both ourselves and the people around us. The project offers a deeply personal reflection on the way in which stories allow us to know parts of people that are no longer there.
PRESS:
⦿ “HER MUSIC IS RIVETING, HER VOICE ADVENTUROUS, HER LYRICS THOUGHT~PROVOKING…” — NO DEPRESSION
⦿ “…STUNNING, BREATHY, AND STARKLY MEMORABLE.” / “THE PRODUCTION ON (MAKING ME BREAK) DONE MASTERFULLY BY BAND OF HORSES AND AVETT BROTHERS COLLABORATOR BILL REYNOLDS — IS ROUNDED AND LUSHLY WARM.” / “SOUNDS LIKE LUCINDA WILLIAMS AND NANCY SINATRA TAKING TURNS ON LEAD, WITH THE CIVIL WARS AS THEIR BACKING BAND.” — SPIN MAGAZINE
Description:
⦿ Some albums are monoliths, compressed under the weight of a singular circumstance bearing down on an artist. Heather Maloney’s “Soil in the Sky” is a collective memory. Stitched together from personal and universal ecstasy, loss both intimate and ancient, Maloney’s fourth full~length release is a collage of tremulous folk, existential ballads, and assertive rock. Taken as a whole, it’s a constellation that looks a lot like life.
⦿ The artist holds the center. The Massachusetts~based “writer song~singer” found music in the midst of three years at a meditation center, honing a sound moored in days of silent reflection and reverence for storytellers like Joni, Rilke and Ken Burns. On “Soil in the Sky,” she takes us to the midwest’s existential crisis, a barstool scooching against fate, a make~my~day reckoning with society’s old guard. They’re roads less traveled and she keeps good company. Dawes’ Taylor Goldsmith lends a distinctive duet to “We Were Together,” a rare love song from Maloney that nods to a Walt Whitman poem; Maloney and Rachel Price form a harmonic Voltron on “Enigma,” a triumphant uppercut to oppressive power structures. The album is sonically rounded out by an all~star cast of players including longtime collaborator Ryan Hommel, Griffin Goldsmith, Jared Olevsky, Reed Sutherland, Dave Eggar and Jay Ungar.
⦿ In sound and sentiment, these 12 songs cover an immense amount of territory. But they’re all powered by the same source. There’s a spiritual thread throughout the record. That inspiration doesn’t necessarily come from above — Maloney has a patchwork metaphysical support system — but from all around: the glow of humanity gathered in the people and places that lap out in our wake.
⦿ Heather has toured nationally as a headliner as well as in support of acts like Lake Street Dive, Shakey Graves, Gary Clark Jr., Colin Hay, Mary Chapin Carpenter, and many more. The New York Times called her music “utterly gorgeous, visceral” and SPIN Magazine described her as “stunning, breathy, and starkly memorable”. “Soil In The Sky” is out on 6/14 via Signature Sounds.
RIYL: I’m With Her, Birds of Chicago, Lindsay Lou, Caitlin Canty
Website: http://www.heathermaloney.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/heathermaloney_
FB: https://www.facebook.com/heathermaloneymusic/
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Album release: June 14, 2019
Record Label: Signature Sounds Recordings
Duration: 40:42
Tracks:
01 Waking Up From a Nightmare 0:21
02 Enigma (feat. Rachael Price) [Explicit] 2:42
03 All in Your Name 4:31
04 Porch Story 0:09
05 Oklahoma Lullaby 3:48
06 We Were Together (feat. Taylor Goldsmith) 4:45
07 Hangin’ On 4:14
08 One Hundred Pennies 3:41
09 In Between 3:43
10 What I Don’t Know, Too (feat. Hayley Reardon) 3:48
11 Wild as a Birdsong 4:22
12 Backwards and Blindfolded 4:38
Notes:
⦿ Rachael Price (born August 30, 1985) is the lead singer for the band Lake Street Dive and graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music. She was born in Australia and grew up in Tennessee. She is the great~granddaughter of Seventh~day Adventist leader George McCready Price, the granddaughter of Hollywood actor John Shelton, and the daughter of composer and conductor Tom Price.
⦿ Taylor Zachary Goldsmith (born August 16, 1985) is an American singer~songwriter, guitarist, and record producer, who is best known as the lead singer and chief songwriter of the American folk rock band Dawes.
⦿ Hayley Reardon is fascinated by the mystery of knowing. Her latest release, entitled Where I Know You, artfully explores what it means to see and understand both ourselves and the people around us. The project offers a deeply personal reflection on the way in which stories allow us to know parts of people that are no longer there.
PRESS:
⦿ “HER MUSIC IS RIVETING, HER VOICE ADVENTUROUS, HER LYRICS THOUGHT~PROVOKING…” — NO DEPRESSION
⦿ “…STUNNING, BREATHY, AND STARKLY MEMORABLE.” / “THE PRODUCTION ON (MAKING ME BREAK) DONE MASTERFULLY BY BAND OF HORSES AND AVETT BROTHERS COLLABORATOR BILL REYNOLDS — IS ROUNDED AND LUSHLY WARM.” / “SOUNDS LIKE LUCINDA WILLIAMS AND NANCY SINATRA TAKING TURNS ON LEAD, WITH THE CIVIL WARS AS THEIR BACKING BAND.” — SPIN MAGAZINE
Description:
⦿ Some albums are monoliths, compressed under the weight of a singular circumstance bearing down on an artist. Heather Maloney’s “Soil in the Sky” is a collective memory. Stitched together from personal and universal ecstasy, loss both intimate and ancient, Maloney’s fourth full~length release is a collage of tremulous folk, existential ballads, and assertive rock. Taken as a whole, it’s a constellation that looks a lot like life.
⦿ The artist holds the center. The Massachusetts~based “writer song~singer” found music in the midst of three years at a meditation center, honing a sound moored in days of silent reflection and reverence for storytellers like Joni, Rilke and Ken Burns. On “Soil in the Sky,” she takes us to the midwest’s existential crisis, a barstool scooching against fate, a make~my~day reckoning with society’s old guard. They’re roads less traveled and she keeps good company. Dawes’ Taylor Goldsmith lends a distinctive duet to “We Were Together,” a rare love song from Maloney that nods to a Walt Whitman poem; Maloney and Rachel Price form a harmonic Voltron on “Enigma,” a triumphant uppercut to oppressive power structures. The album is sonically rounded out by an all~star cast of players including longtime collaborator Ryan Hommel, Griffin Goldsmith, Jared Olevsky, Reed Sutherland, Dave Eggar and Jay Ungar.
⦿ In sound and sentiment, these 12 songs cover an immense amount of territory. But they’re all powered by the same source. There’s a spiritual thread throughout the record. That inspiration doesn’t necessarily come from above — Maloney has a patchwork metaphysical support system — but from all around: the glow of humanity gathered in the people and places that lap out in our wake.
⦿ Heather has toured nationally as a headliner as well as in support of acts like Lake Street Dive, Shakey Graves, Gary Clark Jr., Colin Hay, Mary Chapin Carpenter, and many more. The New York Times called her music “utterly gorgeous, visceral” and SPIN Magazine described her as “stunning, breathy, and starkly memorable”. “Soil In The Sky” is out on 6/14 via Signature Sounds.
RIYL: I’m With Her, Birds of Chicago, Lindsay Lou, Caitlin Canty
Website: http://www.heathermaloney.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/heathermaloney_
FB: https://www.facebook.com/heathermaloneymusic/
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