Brynn Andre

about this album

If Brynn Andre’s debut record Snowboots (Words On Music, 2007) followed the teenage singer-songwriter’s passage from her North Dakota past, then her new self-titled follow-up album documents the upheaval she faced in Minneapolis after reluctantly unmasking what had become her present-day fiction. Produced by Nashville wunderkind Neilson Hubbard (Kate York, Matthew Perryman Jones), the record’s ten songs find Andre forging her own pathway to an unknown but boundless future with a compass carved from the agonizing dissolution of a long-term relationship. In between records, Andre found her life becoming smaller and smaller, taking an identity (and songwriting) moratorium while becoming a corporate cube-dweller. In this emotionally detached foxhole, she bided her time while waiting to take on the role of the idyllic Midwestern wife she thought she wished to play. But Brynn’s protagonist was not yet casting, nor being altogether forthright, and echoes of this unrealized life seep into songs like Ravine, in which Andre asks: " Isn’t that the point, aren’t you the one / Who’s supposed to pull out the rug / And tell me baby, all of our waiting / It’s finally done" In time Andre stopped waiting, and by ending the relationship and razing her as-prescribed life she jump-started her songwriting with an untapped rawness and ferocity, composing words and music that had been submerged for years in her half-contented illusory relationship. With heartbreak as the match for

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