Nashville-based artist Melanie MacLaren shares her new EP Bloodlust
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Nashville-based artist Melanie MacLaren shares her new EP Bloodlust
Artist:
Melanie MacLaren
Place:
Brussels
Date:
Friday, 29. November 2024
The Bloodlust writing came from a period in Melanie’s life marred by grief, loss, and illness. The project is an ode to seeing things as they are - without mythology or artificial glory. Not one to shy away from life’s paradoxes and dualities of life, this project is Melanie’s most high-spirited anthemic music to date. The songs draw deeply from 90’s country influences with hints of Lucinda Williams, Silver Jews, and Gillian Welch, all while staying true to her instinct for flipping conventions of the genre and subject matter on their head. Melanie’s lyrics have been described as “haunting yet humorous” and possessing a “sentimental cynicism” that “oozes with Gen-Z relatability.” This duality shines through in all aspects of her music— she’s a classical finger-style guitar who grew up playing classical but uses ambient beds and distorted traditional instruments to punctuate her compositions. At her core, Melanie is a realist with a gift for language that extracts beauty from even the darkest reality and a unique ability to blend a tongue-in-cheek sensibility with timeless style.
Bloodlust is the follow-up to Melanie’s debut EP Kill My Time in 2022. The EP was followed by a collaborative folk EP of duets called Tadpole Emporium with songwriter Lorkin O’Reilly (DUG).
1. Bloodlust
2. Get it Back
3. Laika
4. Heaven Is
