Kiely Connell – My Own Company
Today, Kiely Connell, Nashville-based, Rustbelt-born and raised singer-songwriter, released her sophomore album My Own Company, out now via Thirty Tigers.
Her sophomore album, produced by Tucker Martine, is a gritty and generous display of heartbreakingly honest lyricism, powerhouse vocals, and a stunning deep-dive into recovering after heartbreak, staring down the barrel of depression, and coming out the other side, to choose oneself.
On “Coming Up Empty,” the lead single, she grapples with feelings of unworthiness, feeling unlovable, but finding solace in support.
Kiely continues, “For the longest time I thought I was unlovable and on a bad day sometimes I still believe it. I wanted to write this song for the person who showed me that I can in fact be loved and taken care of the way I never thought was possible.”
My Own Company – produced by Tucker Martine (Roseanne Cash, Courtney Barnett, Madison Cunningham) with instrumental backing from bassist Nate Query (the Decembrists), drummer Andrew Borger (Tom Waits, Norah Jones) and long term musical companion and guitarist Drew Kohl – is a hard-to-ignore testament of honesty with heartland rock and a jagged, modern edge.
In Connell’s own words, “It’s about a love that you work so hard on that doesn’t work out in the end, so you ultimately end up working on yourself. You learn that the most important relationship is the one you have with yourself.”
Connell continues, “Much like my literary heroes Gaiman, Baudelaire, Poe, & Sexton, I find beauty in the darker elements of the human experience. In my mind the goths and the confessional poets had the right idea. Themes of loneliness, mental health, and journeying into the unknown spiritually and physically are all extremely relatable and I want to be the kind of artist who calls it like I see it. I want to make people feel less alone in their pain, or in knowing that it’s ok to not have all of the answers.”
TOUR DATES SUPPORTING MADI DIAZ
September 24 – Pittsburgh, PA – Club Cafe
September 25 – Lancaster, PA – West Art
September 26 – Woodstock, NY – Levon Helm Studios
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