Archives for September 2020
Paste Magazine Features Annie Dressner
It feels like Annie Dressner has been working toward her latest album for her entire career. As great as her previous albums have been, there’s something about the lush presentation, under the direction of the singer/songwriter’s husband and producer Paul Goodwin, and its pitch perfect use of jangly guitars and gently played drums that is the perfect backdrop for the charmingly reedy quality of her voice and her humbly metaphoric lyrics. It’s a sound informed by early 20th century American music, roots rock and garage pop, but twisted into shapes that are familiar yet strikingly fresh. With an appearance by Nada Surf’s Matthew Caws, who co-wrote and lends his vocals to the autumnal “Midnight Bus,” and a glistening version of the Magnetic Fields’ “The Book of Love,” this album is low key one of the best pop releases of 2020.
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Malin Pettersen, “Wildhorse Dream”
Norwegian songwriter Malin Pettersen sings of following her craziest ambitions in “Wildhorse Dream,” the latest release from her upcoming album Wildhorse (out October 16th). “Don’t know how long it takes to get there, how long I want to stay or if I’m ever even going back,” Pettersen sings, supported by cascading backing vocals and a spacious arrangement that recalls indie-rock tinkerers the Walkmen.
Glide Magazine Premieres Video for “Midnight Bus” from Annie Dressner
From her debut Strangers Who Knew Each Other’s Names, her EP East Twenties and her second full-length Broken Into Pieces, produced by Nigel Stonier (Thea Gilmore), Dressner has taken her experience in musical theater and morphed into an acclaimed singer-songwriter, her music delivered with a conversational ease that often seems as if she is reading from an intimate letter set to music.
“They’re like letters you write but don’t send,” explains Dressner, laughing, “except I publish them.”
American Songwriter Details Annie Dressner’s Process Behind Writing “Dogwood”
“My mother’s favorite tree was a dogwood,” Annie Dressner told American Songwriter.
For Dressner, that fact is not insignificant — this becomes obvious when listening to Dressner’s new song, “Dogwood,” which comes ahead of her new record, Coffee at the Corner Bar (due on September 4). A striking intimate and personal tune, “Dogwood” speaks to a certain sense of grief which is often difficult to articulate.
“Mom passed away nearly ten years ago,” Dressner said. “Writing songs about my grief has helped me process it as I continue to grow and it continues to change. I would have thought that 10 years in, my grieving would be over — but instead, it just evolves. My mother was my closest confidant and I wrote this song as if I was talking to her.”