![]() ![]() It’s a captivating start, and she keeps the ball rolling with the easy-rolling rhythm of the folksy fingerpicked acoustic Rapture with its pianet, soft percussion and bells as she draws on the imagery of heat and cold to reflect on a connection years down the line (“ Come some lonely evening when these embers go leaving/Me bitter and cold/We’ll watch our bodies grow old, you’ll hear me whisper you were right/You’ll laugh at my sorrow so empty and hollow I was such a fool/That I knew better than you/Making up all those rules”), with the poetic “ you’ve been lighting your way with the pages you burn/While others read theirs first, see how bright you can shine” and the earworm chorus “ You don’t know how fire works/It burns too slow you’ll lose it/You don’t know how fire works/It dies until you feed it”. Now, snapped up by the prestigious indie, she returns for a hugely impressive follow-up that, while presented through a modern Southwestern American contemporary lens, calls to mind the likes of Emmylou, Joni, The Band and 60s Laurel Canyon folk.īacked by Portland outfit TK & the Holy Know-Nothings (hence the title), the album opens with the wearied sway and a subtle hint of early Dylan on Room In The City, organ and harmonica behind the high lonesome vocals as she sings of life on the road (“ I’ve been out on the road drinking coffee/In every truck stop and every same little town /I watch the clouds disappear cause they’re embarrassed/By the blue that follow them around”) and missing those left behind (“ I stop to wonder what you’re doing/Are you sitting on your porch singing songs/About the dreams that you had while you were sleeping/How I wish that I was sleeping in your arms”). ![]() Raised in Arizona and now based in Portland, Kassi Valazza released her debut album four years ago, following it up with a download EP. I think in the interest of giving each song it’s time in the sun, as well as building a relationship with the audience, a season of singles can be a really creative and engaging way to go.Kassi Valazza Knows Nothing is a totally captivating album voice, lyrics and melodies will draw you into its embrace, and you won’t want it to let you go. “It’s a bit more of a real-time evolution of the artist in doses that play out like an ongoing conversation. “The singles approach gives me a little more well-rounded day-to-day creative process in that I’m simultaneously tinkering with writing, production and sharing with the audience as opposed to may past routine of taking six months to write, six months to record and then a few months to refresh and restart.”įurthermore, he has found the new routine to be quite “mentally refreshing,” too. “Feeling like that trilogy was complete, I wanted to try a new way of creating and sharing as I move forward,” he said. In the aftermath of his third album, Bluebird, Johnson witnessed his creativity drastically shift. “Irises” is the latest in a string of singles this year. ![]() “Hear me out / Did you know that snowflake’s designed like none / Other and your irises’ lines are spun / Alone in yellow color,” he sings. ![]() Under four minutes, “Irises” appears to fill the entire expanse of both time and space. ![]()
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