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Carving Canyons

Carving Canyons

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Lissie has always written for the live stage, motivated by her desire for her touring band to do her albums justice without requiring access to digital or synthesised sounds. And the piano- and trumpet-led show of album-wrapper “Midnight” has Lissie testing the waters back out in the world – “My life/Is somewhere out there/I don’t wanna fight it no more” – damaged but wiser, and ready to take on whatever comes next.

Perhaps the best chorus out of the twelve, it’s impossible not to feel like screaming this song on the top of one’s lungs. Once the song comes out the other side, it belongs to the listener, Writing with people, it was also healing to be like, ‘Oh, yeah, YOU felt this way. And not even on purpose, but there was just a ton of women who I wrote with on this record, and I did find there was something much more somehow efficient about that, whether that’s a coincidence or not. I actually ended up meeting a new person who I’ve been dating for over a year who’s amazing, and I really think, had there not been this downtime, we probably wouldn’t have been able to have a relationship, because it’s hard to date someone who’s never home!From the gently acoustic Unravel to the pensive, piano-led Midnight this is a deeply personal album.

Lonesome wine is another amazing piece that confirms how the singer is at best when she allows herself to share the most introspective and intimidating parts of herself – “It’s me and the bottle tonight, it’s the only one who’s gonna hold me tight”. We make all this popcorn that’s based on pop music, and that’s been a really good project to do during COVID, since I couldn’t really play shows. The road back truly begins, though, when Lissie circles back to those blooming flowers that, in her words, “Literally come from sh! The flowers take on different meanings from verse to verse as Lissie approaches the history of the relationship from different angles.

Not that my small amount of acres and prairie will do a lot to sequester carbons, but there’s a lot to be said if more of the heartland was put back into prairie, that would actually sequester a lot of carbons, and I’m interested in that. Never have I heard an album so easily able to shake me to my core, and yet so deeply cathartic and powerfully uplifting. AH: Sometimes, though, there is that rush of hearing something new, or new to you, and it just does knock you out, and that’s great.

I’m kinda considered maybe more pop or indie rock, but I definitely think, just by virtue of my life and who I am and where I live, there’s definitely twinges of folk and Americana and country. This is clearly a song that comes from the heart and it’s impossible not to consider it one of the best out of the album. As Lissie rediscovers what makes her the person she is, she unveils her most authentic qualities: every bit of this song contributes to offer a full mosaic picture of Lissie’s way of seeing the world.AH: Yeah, I’ll get myself into those ruts, too, but one there’s one thing you want to hear, that’s all that’ll work for ya. L: No, Since I put out [2010’s] Catching a Tiger, my first big release – I’d written a lot of songs prior, but my proper first album – I’ve always co-written.

Due to inventory and accounting purposes, we do not exchange items received for different items than originally purchased. L: It could sound insensitive to say that anything good came from COVID, because obviously a lot of people died, and it was unbelievable – still, I can’t believe we’ve all been through this really intense thing. The time given to writing and recording Carving Canyons allowed Lissie full time to process, writing lyrics that offer transparency without frantic confessing, eventually leading to a possible way out of the crisis.And so I think that thing of just, take it day by day, give it time, that old cliche “Time heals all wounds. I think there still is an awareness of, even if it’s immature, ‘You made me feel bad, so I want you to feel bad. That album has so much substance, and it’ll really suck you in, and you just really want to keep listening. AH: Reading the bio, you had a quote in there that really got my attention – the album’s about grief, but also ‘addressing how things are always eventually going to change.



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