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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.
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.”
“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.”
Americana Highways brings you this premiere of Annie Dressner’s song “Look What You’re Doing to Us” from her upcoming album Coffee at the Corner Bar, due for release on September 4th.
Coffee at the Corner Bar was produced by Paul Goodwin; mixed and mastered by Louie Lino at RESONATE in Austin, Texas.
“Look What You’re Doing To Us” is Annie Dressner on vocals, acoustic guitar and backing vocals; Paul Goodwin on electric guitar, piano, organ, synth, bass, harmonium, mandolin, harmonica, backing vocals, percussion, glockenspiel and programming; Matthew Caws on electric guitar.
Notable releases for Aug. 28:
Bettye LaVette — Blackbirds; Ruston Kelly — Shape & Destroy; Toots & The Maytals — Got To Be Tough; Toni Braxton — Spell My Name; Mixmaster Mike & Steve Jordan — Beat Odyssey 2020; Mike Gordon & Leo Kottke — Noon; Disclosure — Energy; Gustavo Dudamel & The Los Angeles Philharmonic — Charles Ives: Complete Symphonies; Katy Perry — Smile; The Northern Belle — We Wither, We Bloom; Elliott Smith — Elliott Smith: Expanded 25th Anniversary Edition; Samia — The Baby; Haley Blais — Below The Salt; Wood & Wire — No Matter Where It Goes From Here; Widowspeak — Plum
Annie Dressner’s lyrical life has seen her trot from the US to the UK throughout the development of her musical identity. With roots sewn in New York, much of her heritage lies in music, with her grandparents having first met while working in radio and her parents imbuing her with a love of piano in her early years. Since, she’s developed an individualistic style as a singer-songwriter—direct, indelible, and subtly bittersweet—that she’s toured throughout the indie circuit to acclaim since. Her latest, “Midnight Bus”, is unsuspecting, grungy folk that wouldn’t feel remiss in the songbooks of Phoebe Bridgers or Elliott Smith, but it’s Dressner’s own.