Nashville-based singer/songwriter Buick Audra doesn’t pull any punches with “Questions,” probably the most private songs she’s written so far.
“That’s largely as a result of it’s so true,” she says. “It’s in regards to the typically painful and futile methods I’ve tried to be seen and recognized by others—and questioning if I’ve the flexibility to alter these hardwired tendencies in my lifetime.”
One half of the riff-heavy rock duo Friendship Commanders and a Grammy winner for her work with Joss Stone on 2009’s “This Little Gentle Of Mine,” Audra is about to launch her fourth solo LP, Grownup Youngster, on June 13. She doesn’t shrink back from the concept-album tag, calling it a “sonic collage” coloured by identification points, estrangement trauma and the battle to transcend familial disfunction and one’s personal DNA.
Audra recorded the album at Nashville’s revered Sound Emporium Studio A and her personal Fort Knockout Studio. For six tracks, she’s joined by drummer Jerry Roe (Friendship Commanders), bassist Lex Worth (Silver Seas) and guitarist Kris Donegan. She took a extra scaled-down strategy on the opposite three songs, recruiting longtime collaborator Kurt Ballou (Converge) to combine the album.
“Questions For The Gods Of Human Habits” was the very first thing Audra wrote for Grownup Youngster. “As quickly as I completed it, I knew I used to be opening a brand new chapter of speaking about how my upbringing nonetheless impacts the methods I transfer via the world right now,” she says.
We’re proud to premiere Buick Audra’s “Questions For The Gods Of Human Habits.”
—Hobart Rowland
