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NPR’s All Things Considered shares the story behind Becky Warren’s new LP War Surplus

Nashville singer-songwriter Becky Warren penned an album inspired by her former marriage to an Iraq veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder. On this Veterans Day, her goal was to help people understand what it’s like to go through a deployment and deal with its aftermath. CHECK IT OUT…

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NPR’s All Songs Considered debut’s “Sorry, Not Sorry” from Sydney Eloise and the Palms

Fifties girl group crooning and echo chamber drums. Sixties wall of sound. Seventies California canyon sway. Eighties laser-sharp production. Nineties alt-country twang. Aughts vocal callbacks from Neko Case to Jenny Lewis to Bethany Cosentino of Best Coast. Such is the stylistic chronology of indie-pop outfit Sydney Eloise & The Palms, whose latest single, premiering here, cherry-picks from 50 years of influences.

“Sorry, Not Sorry” has an unmistakably millennial title, but every note of it nods to predecessors. And with decades of backup, what could have been a flippant, hashtag-ready kissoff sounds instead like a rich, substantial reflection on getting out from under a bad situation.

Frontwoman Sydney Eloise said in an email that she wrote the song trying to maintain some dignity in the end of a relationship:

It may seem like a song of rebuttal, retaliation or revenge, but really “Sorry, Not Sorry” is me putting my hands up — getting to that point of numbness in a relationship where you can no longer carry another person’s emotions on your back … For me, this song is about reaching that moment where I had to stop thinking about this other person’s feelings because it was time to acknowledge my own. Like, “sorry this may hurt, but I’m not sorry for speaking my truth.”

Her low voice, indulging in few flourishes, flirts with nonchalance in the same way Cosentino’s does. Yet hearing this song that way would miss its affecting lyrics and the band’s fearlessness in casting a wide and sometimes contradictory net of references. “Sorry, Not Sorry” came from a numb, disconnected place, but it’s got a half-century of heart. LISTEN HERE…

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NPR’s Songs We Love features Sara Rachele’s “Rebecca”

This song couldn’t have been released as anything other than a single. A full-length album would collapse under the plaintive, heartbreaking weight of Sara Rachele’s “Rebecca,” and picking songs to cushion it in a track list would be nearly impossible.

The Decatur, Ga. singer-songwriter’s pure, rootsy voice has a thick twang and deep vulnerability that garner immediate trust — which is vital before following her into the tangle of emotions her narrator feels after having an abortion. In range and rhythm, this is not a complicated vocal performance. But she is masterful in the myriad ways her singing envelops the nuance and intensity needed to tell this story.

The song was recorded solo, while Rachele sat in the grass outside the Danielsville, Ga. studio where she recorded the other track on her Madison County single. The rustles and chirps around her act as a response and a bolster. She sings about being lost in memory and “what ifs,” but all around her, life goes on.

Madison County is out now on Angrygal Records.

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