Johanna Warren – Bed of Nails

Labels:Carpark Records
Number of Tracks:1
Total Time:00:04:28
From the Album:Bed of Nails
Formats:AAA,Non-Commercial,NPR,Rock,Rock – Specialty
Available Date & Time: Feb 18 2020 14:00:00 EST
Impact Date: n/a

 

Chaotic Good, out May 1st, 2020 via Wax Nine/Carpark Records!

 

Chaotic Good is Warren’s fifth full-length album and first for Wax Nine/Carpark Records. It represents a moment of rupture in the singer-songwriter’s career as she transitions away from the quiet, folk-adjacent work that defined her early solo albums with a bold statement piece that demonstrates the breadth of her ambition. Here, Warren flits between crushing admissions set to spare piano solos and muscular declarations of independence that have more in common with grunge acts of bygone years than anything we’ve heard from Warren in the past. “The last few years I’ve had an urge to change my name, or create some alter-ego,” she says. “But I realized ‘Johanna’ is already a character. We think we know who we are based on what’s already happened, but we’re always allowed to make new choices.” The oceanic, soothing single “Bed of Nails” illustrates that realization perfectly when Warren sings: “I tried a little bit too hard to be myself/ It turned me into something else." 

 

Recording Chaotic Good was an exercise in self-reinvention. Warren decided to produce the album on her own, borrowing recording equipment from a friend to do much of the preliminary tracking alone in a garage. She enlisted a few key collaborators to fully enliven her vision, most notably former Sticklips bandmates Chris St. Hilaire and Jim Bertini. On the raucously resilient “Part of It,” Warren is joined by her musical brethren as she addresses a noncommittal narcissist and—a trademark of Warren’s work—the narrator’s complicity in her own suffering: “Don’t look at me like I’m the one holding you back/ and I won’t look at you like you have something I lack.” Adding to the album’s dynamism is the fact that it took shape over the course of four years in studios across the United States while Warren was touring her most recent albums Gemini I and II. Warren uses words like “patchwork” and “scrapbook” to describe Chaotic Good; it is a collection of sonic snapshots that transport her to specific places in time with each listen. 

 


previous airplay from: KEXP, WNRN, WXPN, WCSF, WQRR, WSOU, WRSI, + more!
 

"Warren pushes her voice to its outer limits" – STEREOGUM 

 

“Unvarnished chords rub up against a sparse synth melody to create a hypnotic loop over which Warren's questioning lyrics lay open her rawest emotions” – The Fader

 

One of "Four Singer-Songwriters You Need to Know" – Rolling Stone Magazine 

 

 "Heartbreaking and stirring" – Pitchfork

 

"The spirit that animates much of Warren's music and philosophy [is] an enduring belief that we can be better, despite the hurt and despair we put each other and ourselves through." – NPR

 

 

Watch the gorgeous music video for "Bed of Nails" HERE

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