Nashville, TN – West Virginia indie rock group Hello June announced they will release a new album entitled Artifacts on October 6 via 31 Tigers Records. The group’s second album is their first in five years, following their self-titled debut in 2018.
Hello June’s songs are so emotionally open and resonant that they sometimes feel like leaps of faith. The group thrives on interrogating a feeling with a disarming, scalpel-like precision. It’s this clarifying honesty that’s garnered the band rave reviews from NPR,
Paste Magazine, and No Depression. Across 11 gorgeous and raw tracks, the group’s frontperson Sarah Rudy sings about death, birth, hope, and despair with grace and nuance. The first single from the forthcoming album, “Interstate,” is a courageous, affecting tune about the death of Rudy’s father, after a long battle with addiction.
Artifacts was recorded in Nashville at Bell Tone Recording with producer Roger Alan Nichols. The textures and arrangements the band experiments with on Artifacts are warm and adventurous. Take “California,” which introduces New Wave synths to color in the song. It’s a sprawling track that finds Rudy singing, “You called me pretty under street lights / I caught you lookin’ now we can’t look away.”
Elsewhere, songs like “Honey I Promise” and “23” are propulsive rockers that evoke both early Big Thief and Drive-by Truckers. …...more
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