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Nr : 1166100867 Label : Rounder Records │██ │█▓ ------------------------------------------------------------------ │██ │▓█ Release date: 2020-12-01 Retail date: 2020-05-22 │██ │██░   ▄▄▄  ▄▄      ▄▄  ▄██▄  ▄▄▄ ▐██▓░ ░█▀▐▌ ▄█▓▌  ▌ ▐██▓▐██▓▐░▐█▀█ ▐▓█▀███▄▄▄░ ▐█░▓ ▐██ ▐ █▌▐▌██ ██░ █ ██░▓  ░▄▄▄███▀█▓▐│ ▐█▀█▓▄▀▄▀▓▌█▀▓▄░  ▀██▄▐██ ▐ █▌█ ██ █▌  █ ▀███▓ ░▄▓▀▀▀ ░▓█▀█▐│ ▀ ▌▐▌▀▓▓▀ ▀   ▄█▌ ██ ▌ ▐█▌ █▌ ▐░▐█    ▄█  ▀ │██│ ▀▄▀▄▒░▓ ▓▀██▓  ▀▀▀   ▀  ▀▓  ▀█▓ ▓▀█▀   │██ ░ ▀▄▀▄                   █████▄▄      │██ ▐▌▐▌                   ▀░   ▓▀▄ ▄▓▄ ██ ▓▀▄▀                ▄▄▀      ▐▌  ▀  │██               █▓░     ▄█▀     ▓█              ░▀▄▄▄▄███░       ▓█                ▀▀▀▀▀          ██ ██ ██ ██ 1. Shit Kickin' 3:53 ██ 2. Look Long 4:39 ██ 3. Howl At The Moon 3:42 ██ 4. When We Were Writers 3:54 ██ 5. Change My Heart 3:46 ██ 6. K.C. Girl 3:43 ██ 7. Country Radio 3:57 ██ 8. Muster 3:40 ██ 9. Feel This Way Again 2:52 ██ 10. Favorite Flavor 2:56 ██ 11. Sorrow And Joy 4:41 ██ ██ ██ ██ █▓ Total Runtime: 41:43 █▓ █░                 ▄             █                ▐██            ▓                ▓█▌░           ░                   ▀███████▓▀▀▀       ▓██▓░       ▄        ██▓  ▄▄   ▄▄▄▓ ░▓██▓ ░▀████▓      ██▌ ▄█▀█ ▐██  ██▀█ ▐█▀█▌ ░▓████▀░ ░ ░▀▀▄░ ▐█▄ ███▌▐██▓▐ ▐█▌ ▐█░▐█ ██░█░ ░▓█▐▀▀▄▀▄ ▄ ░ ▓ ▐█░▐▌██▓██▌░▐ ▐█▌ ██▓▀  █▌▄   ▀ ▐▌▐ █ ▓███ ██ ██▌ █ ▐█▌ ██▓░ ▐▀▀▀█▌ ░▒▄▀▄▀ █░ ░██▌ ██ ▐██ ▌░ █▌░ ▀█▄▄▓  ██▓ ▄▀▄▀ ░ │█▓   ▀   ▀▓ ▀▀▀   ▐█▓      ▄█▀   ▐▌▐▌ ▄ █▓                 ▀             ▀▄▀▄ ▀▓▀ ██ ░▄ ██│ ON THEIR 16TH STUDIO ALBUM, ██│ Indigo Girls tell their origin story. They have reunited with their ██│ strongest backing band to date to create Look Longùa stirring and ██│ eclectic collection of songs that finds the duo of Amy Ray and Emily ██│ Saliers chronicling their personal upbringings with more specificity ██│ and focus than they have on any previous song-cycle. These eleven songs ██│ have a tender, revealing motion to them, as if theyÆre feeding into a ██│ Super 8 film projector, illuminating a darkened living room: Saliers ██│ Ray are tackling the mechanisms of perspective. ôWeÆre fallible ██│ creatures shaped by the physics of life,ö says Saliers. ôWeÆre shaped ██│ by our past; what makes us who we are? And why?ö In this moment of ██│ delirious upheaval, Look Long considers the tremendous potential of ██│ ordinary life and suggests the possibility that an honest survey of ██│ oneÆs past and present, unburdened by judgement, can give shape to ██│ something newùthe promise of a way forward. With the energy of an ██│ expanding, loyal audience beneath their feet, a weather eye toward ██│ refinement, and an openness to redefinition, Indigo Girls exemplify ██│ that promise. ██│ ██│ ██│ Plans for Look Long materialized over morning tea with producer John ██│ Reynolds (SinΘad OÆConnor, Damien Dempsey) on a stop during the duoÆs ██│ recent, sold-out tour of the United Kingdom. ôWe were talking about ██│ life and music and by the end of breakfast weÆd reached the conclusion ██│ that it was time to make another record together,ö says Ray. Their ██│ relationship with Reynolds dates back to the summer of 1998 during the ██│ second Lilith Fair Tour when a shared main stage headlining slot with ██│ SinΘad OÆConnor and her formidable backing band featuring Reynolds on ██│ drums, bassist Clare Kenny, keyboardist Carol Isaacs, cellist Caroline ██│ Dale, and lead guitar player Justin Adams blossomed into deep, mutual ██│ admiration, friendships, and eventually, collaboration. Ray has called ██│ the relationship, ôone of the most important moments in our musical ██│ growth.ö The group recorded Indigo GirlsÆ next album, 1999Æs Come On ██│ Now Social, with Reynolds acting as both producer and drummer, before ██│ embarking on a worldwide tour together. Twenty years later, with the ██│ addition of longtime touring violinist Lyris Hung, Look Long marks the ██│ complete return of the lineup Saliers calls, ôour musical compass.ö ██│ ██│ ██│ Tracking commenced in early January 2019 at Peter GabrielÆs Real World ██│ Studios, a state-of-the-art recording studio tucked into the English ██│ countryside outside the city of Bath. ôEmily and I were so excited by ██│ JohnÆs arrangements,ö Ray remembers. ôIt was a good lesson in trust.ö ██│ Before flying to England, the two had agreed, ôWhatever happens in the ██│ studio will happen,ö says Saliers. ôA lot of magic unfolded because of ██│ that decision.ö ██│ ██│ ██│ A similar magic unfolded in 1989 when their eponymous major label debut ██│ shifted over two million units under the power of ôCloser to Fineö and ██│ ôKid Fearsö and turned Indigo Girls into one of the most successful ██│ folk duos in history. Over a thirty-five-year career that began in ██│ clubs around their native Atlanta, Georgia, the Grammy-winning duo has ██│ recorded sixteen studio albums (seven gold, four platinum, one double ██│ platinum), sold over 15 million records, and built a dedicated, ██│ enduring following. Collaborations with a new generation of devoted ██│ peers like Brandi Carlile, Justin Vernon (Bon Iver), Sierra Hull, and ██│ Matt Nathanson continue to bring newcomers to Indigo GirlsÆ audience. ██│ Says Vernon about growing up with Indigo GirlsÆ music, ôI adored them ██│ more and moreùthe more they had strength in the face of their ██│ adversityàTheyÆre my favorite group ever.ö Committed and uncompromising ██│ activists, they work on issues like immigration reform (El Refugio), ██│ LGBTQ advocacy, education (Imagination Library), death penalty reform, ██│ and Native American rights. They are co-founders of Honor the Earth, a ██│ non-profit dedicated to the survival of sustainable Native communities, ██│ Indigenous environmental justice, and green energy solutions. ██│ ██│ ██│ ôI told myself I wasnÆt going to put boundaries around what should be ██│ an Indigo Girls song,ö Ray says of writing album opener ôShit KickinÆ.ö ██│ The funky, back road-strut is both a love letter to her Southern ██│ heritage and a refusal to be complacent about the regionÆs legacy of ██│ prejudice and racism. ôDamn that trickery / it got the best of me,ö Ray ██│ sings over SaliersÆ slide guitar, ôIÆm gonna tear it down and start ██│ again.ö ██│ ██│ ██│ ôEveryone I know can sense Armageddon,ö sings Saliers on title track ██│ ôLook Long,ö a masterful display of her compositional grace that ██│ coalesces past, present, and future into a unified perspective. ôPeople ██│ feel lost in these political times,ö she says. In the memory of her ██│ grandmother, ôa Nixon Republicanö who let the grandkids drink from her ██│ ôApollo Mission glasses / etched in red, white, and blue ██│ commemoration,ö Saliers depicts an all but vanished form of American ██│ identity. SheÆs a patriot in the grand tradition of Woody Guthrie; ██│ ôLook Longö is both a lament and a prayer of hope for the country she ██│ loves. ôLook long / Look long,ö she repeats over a soft, arpeggiating ██│ piano figure. ôIt means letÆs lament our limitations, but letÆs also ██│ look beyond whatÆs right in front of us, take the long view of things, ██│ and strive to do better.ö ██│ ██│ ██│ Ray is equally focused on the search for common ground on ôMuster,ö a ██│ frank accounting of the American gun-violence epidemic she began ██│ writing after seeing a televised town hall meeting held in Parkland, ██│ Florida. ôI was struck by these citizensÆ willingness to meet and try ██│ in earnest to have a dialogue between the two sides.ö She asks, ôIs ██│ this the best we could muster / Custer or just prayers for the slain / ██│ I wanna get this right and not the same ole thing.ö ██│ ██│ ██│ SaliersÆ angular electric guitar intro sends a current through ôChange ██│ My Heart,ö a rocker that pairs politics and physics. ôThe four ██│ fundamental forces came to play / In the American schism,ö she sings. ██│ ôI was reading about electromagnetism and gravitational lawàwe are ██│ physical beings, we vibrate. And we can achieve higher vibrations, so ██│ to speak.ö Pulsing with psychedelic guitars and organ layers, ôChange ██│ My Heartö does just that. ██│ ██│ ██│ Saliers and Ray both became parents (each a daughter) since their last ██│ studio album; the experience permeates these songs of self-discovery. ██│ The twist-time, B-52s-tinged ôFavorite Flavorö evolved out of a game of ██│ call and response between Amy and her daughter. ôWhen IÆm writing, ██│ sheÆll come sit with me and play along on a drum or shaker. She knows I ██│ have a candy jar on my writing table,ö laughs Ray. ôOne day we were ██│ singing back and forth about candy and fun things and I recorded it on ██│ my phone. I listened to the recording a lot when I missed her; I liked ██│ the way she interjected the words ôdark, pink cherryö in just the right ██│ places and I started to realize there was the beginning of a real song ██│ there.ö The song took on a more serious tone as Ray continued to write. ██│ ôIÆm a left-winger in a conservative county and a parent of a kid who ██│ loves playdates. It was hard to explain to her why my neighbors had ██│ stopped letting their kids wander down our gravel driveway to play.ö ██│ ██│ ██│ ôI wrote about something that IÆd been afraid to write about my entire ██│ life,ö says Saliers of her elegy for her younger sister, ôSorrow and ██│ Joy.ö ôWe have to hold these opposites in life. ItÆs the secret, itÆs ██│ the key, itÆs the way that things are madeùby opposing forces that ██│ inform each other. I was looking at her photo, thinking how strange it ██│ is that when someone dies young, theyÆre forever frozen in your mind as ██│ youthful. The contradictory emotion of seeing their vibrancy and ██│ knowing that theyÆre gone.ö ██│ ██│ ██│ ôHowl at the Moonö is a joyful, rallying-cry for personal liberation. ██│ It began on a late-night walk around Athens, Ga after a 14-hour drive ██│ from Indianapolis on her recent solo tour. ôI was feeling old, tired, ██│ and hungry. Everything I was thinking about as I walked ended up in ██│ this song: an apology, a confessional, and a quest for liberationùfor ██│ all of us, regardless of age, gender, race, or sexuality.ö ReynoldsÆ ██│ rhythmic approach brings the lyric to life in a ôglorious swirlö of ██│ mandolin jangle and clever counter-melodies. ôItÆs a world of sounds ██│ and movement for a song about overcoming all the boundaries that hold ██│ us back and freeing ourselves from the pain we get mired inö says Ray. ██│ ██│ ██│ ôI wanna be that boy / I wanna be that girl / I wanna know what itÆs ██│ like to fall in love like most of the rest of the world,ö Saliers aches ██│ over a lovely layer of strings on ôCountry Radio.ö ôThis is the way I ██│ felt doing those four-hour drives from Nashville, listening to country ██│ music radio,ö she says. ôI could almost put my own life story in these ██│ songs, but I canÆt. There are gender divisions and heteronormative ██│ realities. ThereÆs a lot of self-homophobia that IÆve had to work on in ██│ my own life that plays into this as well.ö Indigo Girls have been ██│ previewing ôCountry Radioö in their live set; ôI can tell itÆs ██│ resonating with people; when I get to that line, æIÆm just a gay kid ██│ who loves country radio,Æ thereÆs an audible verbal response from the ██│ audience,ö says Saliers. ██│ ██│ ██│ Ray was reflecting on ride share apps when she penned ôK.C. Girl,ö a ██│ power pop, suburban nocturne. ôItÆs a transaction built on trust but ██│ also detachment. Even in silence, youÆre both leaving clues about who ██│ you are. No one wants to be read the wrong way.ö ██│ ██│ ██│ ôWhen We Were Writersö is a pop-savvy ode to what Saliers calls ôthe ██│ two most influential years of my lifeö spent at Tulane University in ██│ New Orleans. ôAmy and I were starting to embark on really what was the ██│ beginning of our career,ö remembers Saliers. ôToday, we joke about ██│ being old, but what is old when it comes to music? WeÆre still a bar ██│ band at heart. We are so inspired by younger artists and while our ██│ lyrics and writing approach may change, our passion for music feels the ██│ same as it did when we were 25-years-old.ö ██│ ██│ ██│ ôAs time has gone on, our audience has become more expansive and ██│ diverse, giving me a sense of joy,ö she adds. To hear those collective ██│ voices raise into one, singing along and overpowering the band itself, ██│ one realizes the importance Indigo GirlsÆ music has in this moment. In ██│ our often-terrifying present, we are all in search of a daily refuge, a ██│ stolen hour or two, to engage with something that brings us joy, ██│ perspective, or maybe just calm. As one bar band once put it, ôWe go to ██│ the doctor, we go to the mountainsàwe go to the Bible, we go through ██│ the work out.ö For millions, they go to Indigo Girls. On Look Long ██│ theyÆll find a creative partnership certain of its bearings, forging a ██│ way forward. ██ │▓█ │▓█ │██│ ██│ URL: http://www.indigogirls.com ██│ ██│     ██│        │██░  █▄     │██▓░        ▓███▄▄▄  ▐██▓     ░▓██▓ │▓█▀███▄▄▄░   ─────▐─────▐───▐─░▌───▄─────▐██▄──── ░▓████▀░ │█▀█▓▄▀▄▀▓▌█▀▓▄░  ─▄───│─────▌────▌─▐──▀▓▀───▐░▓▓███── ▓█▐▀▀▄▀▄ ▄ ░ ▌▐▌▀▓▓▀ ▀░ ▀▓▀──▌────▐─────▐─────────▐▓─────▐──  ▀ ▐▌▐ ▀▄▀▄▒░▓ ────▐─────├────▄█▌───────▄▌─────▐───  ░▒▄▀▄▀ ░ ▀▄▀▄ ─▄▄▄▌───▄▓▌───▐██▌──-███▄▌─────▐░───  ▄▀▄▀ ░ ▄ ▐▌▐▌ ███▓ ▐███░   ░▀▀▀▀  ▄▄▓▄▌  ▄   ▐▌▐▌ ▄ ▀▓▀ ▓▀▄▀       ▀▀▓  2 0 2 0    ▓ ▐███▓  ▀▓▀  ▀▄▀▄ ▀▓▀    ▐  ▓▓      ░▄