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inger-songwriter Lydia Loveless’
highly anticipated new album,
Real, was released August 19 via
Bloodshot Records. This record follows the
release of Somewhere Else, which Rolling
Stone praised as “…an aching, lusty set
of twang and sneer wrapped in electric
guitar swagger,” while Pitchfork furthered
“Somewhere Else [is] both a bracing and a
deeply harrowing listen.” “Longer,” the first
track to be revealed off Real, premiered via
Stereogum. Of the song, Stereogum says,
“It’s like the Replacements soundtracking
the sad aftermath of Big Star’s “Thirteen” —
which is to say, it’s awesome.”
Real was recorded at Sonic Lounge
Studios in her home state of Ohio and was
engineered and produced by Joe Viers (Dr.
John, Twenty One Pilots). “I chose to work
with Joe Viers, engineer and producer of
my last three releases, again because I trust
him completely not only with my music but
with my words,” said Loveless. “There was
a lot to say this time around and I wanted
to return to that sort of playground and
(sometimes literally) throw things at the
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wall. Whereas our previous records could
be described as blunt or raw, this one I
wanted to be known as honest, as true, as
real (rimshot),” she adds.
Of the album Loveless says:
"We refer only to things fully formed and
everlasting as 'real'. If a marriage ends it
was 'fake' and everything was a 'lie.' We ask
if quickly made up tunes are 'real songs'.
The veil of depression causes to wonder if
we're real people, feeling discarded, sitting
April 2018
INSIGHT