Want (Vinyl) - By: Esther Rose - Model Number: NW5908LP

Description

Esther Rose was on a long solo drive when she started writing the opening title track of Want, her stunning fifth album. At first, the words seemed almost like a joke, something to keep herself amused as the miles passed. I want a puppy, but I don™t want a mess. I want to know where I™m going without GPS,� she sang from behind the wheel. Soon, the idea snowballed into a list of desires that spanned existential, spiritual, and mundane; romantic to platonic to familial; at once wildly ambitious yet piercingly relatable; all set to a catchy melody that blends her pop instincts with country storytelling and the raw immediacy of a basement punk show. In other words, she was
on her way to another classic Esther Rose song.
This precise blend has made the Santa Fe-based artist one of her generation™s most beloved songwriters: someone whose live shows are known to conclude in mass tears and group hugs.
Still, something was different this time. For me, these songs felt like revelations,� she explains, comparing the 11-song record to a memoir, alive with kinetic storytelling and personal insight. In its newly direct and stirringly nuanced writing, you™ll hear about rock bottom encounters, shifting relationships with substances, evolving
perspectives on adult partnership, and, as evidenced by those early lines in Want,� a few jokes along the way. Vivid and bracing, Want places you in the passenger seat while each of these feelings arrive.

Label
New West Records

Tracks & Genre

SOUTHBOUND