New EP “Lay Low” is out on 14th May and all 5 tracks feature vocals from Clowes. I’d been meaning to ask Lydia to collaborate for an age, but it had never quite worked out until lockdown stopped all session musicians in their tracks”. “We’ve been playing together as session musicians for years I’ve never seen anyone make singing beautifully look so effortless. Ashby has wanted to collaborate with Clowes for a long time – they have worked together as session musicians – and lockdown provided the impetus for it: Clowes might not have a PhD but her stunning vocals are used to glorious effect and will absolutely affect any human brain that processes their amazing tone. His two-decade career has generated tuneful and varied. Rouse started his music career in Nashville where he recorded his debut album, Dressed Up Like Nebraska in 1998.
Josh Rouse is a folk, pop, singer-songwriter from Nebraska. Josh Rouse debuts new music at PledgeHouse during SXSW 20:17.
It’s funny that everyone is nervous at the beginning of a relationship and we just don’t need to be.”Īshby has a PhD in Psychoacoustics so knows how to use sound to affect the human brain. Josh Rouse - Salton Sea 2-24-19 Joes Pub, NYC 4:15. Since this is a song about the start of a relationship, I thought it would be interesting to get both points of view across on the vocals. TIDAL is the first global music streaming service with high fidelity sound, hi-def video quality, along with expertly curated playlists and original content making it a trusted source for music and culture. Loneliness has been so prevalent and has made us re-evaluate all the things we took for granted.
The pandemic has made it apparent just how much we as humans value physical contact and interactions. I wanted to write a song about finding a true connection with someone and how that feeling evolves over time, I also wanted to draw reference to the changing of seasons along the way. Coming out of winter felt like a new beginning, but at the same time coronavirus was becoming pretty scary. “Happy Just To Know’ was written at the end of February 2020, I’d just moved in with my girlfriend and relocated to the Suffolk coast. The singers are two sides of the same developing love story and both are nervous about revealing how they feel but they needn’t be as both sing – “you make me happy when we’re together”.
It’s just a totally delightful, lovely, warm and full of heart indie-folk tune with a bouncing beat and fabulous intertwining vocals from Ashby and Clowes. You know from the first ‘woo hoo’s’ of the opening that this is going to be good and it absolutely delivers on its promise – actually it over delivers on its promise.