Tenderness

STAGE - St John's Church
TIMINGS - TBC

The just-released debut album from Tenderness — the solo project of Katy Beth Young (Peggy Sue, Deep Throat Choir) — leads you by the hand through emotive scenes on deceptively simple songs that shimmer with electric guitars and drones and licks of pedal steel. Songs that look sideways at romance and grief and technology. Songs that break hearts with their precise and thoughtful beauty as well as their sadness. Songs that are, by turns, tender like a touch, tender like a bruise.

The album recordings are sparse in a country way but layered with carefully chosen textures: synths, drones, rich backing vocals, pedal steel. True is a solo album in name, but a communal one in spirit, with a host of collaborators; “One of the most joyful things.. is being able to invite so many different people to play on it. It feels very beautiful to me that so many of the people I’ve made music with are on the album.”

The album is both deeply personal and quietly expansive - a collection of songs born from solitude but shaped by community, rooted in heartache yet reaching toward something hopeful. place.

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