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Hard to Love by Kristen Rae Bowden

Hard to Love

Kristen Rae Bowden

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Charlottesville, Virginia based artist Kristen Rae Bowden goes from earth-tones to neon with her new single “Hard to Love”. Recorded at Dave Matthews Band’s Haunted Hollow studio with Joe Lawlor (Egypt, DMB), Tevis Marshall, Dane Alderson (Yellowjackets), Nate Brown (Everything), and Rob Evans (DMB), Bowden’s first toe-dip into indie pop is a love

Charlottesville, Virginia based artist Kristen Rae Bowden goes from earth-tones to neon with her new single “Hard to Love”. Recorded at Dave Matthews Band’s Haunted Hollow studio with Joe Lawlor (Egypt, DMB), Tevis Marshall, Dane Alderson (Yellowjackets), Nate Brown (Everything), and Rob Evans (DMB), Bowden’s first toe-dip into indie pop is a love letter to all the cynical and jaded dreamers. Released on Valentines Day as an ironic eye-roll at commercial romance, “Hard to Love” expresses the cynicism that shelters a broken heart after a breakup. Sparsely and with a hint of humor, she writes of her impulse to push new lovers away: “Here I go again / see me trying / to squeeze from the middle / so I’ll be alone again.” The track features a steady heartbeat of muted electronic drums, a vintage-y analogue synth, Lawlor’s smooth guitar, and Bowden’s layered harmonies on the anthemic chorus. In the end it’s the music, not the lyrics, that assures us she’ll fall in love again. And in the process we hear a reminder we all need from time to time… that it takes a lot of bravery to be truly vulnerable.

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Language & Mirrors by Kristen Rae Bowden

Language & Mirrors

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The right kind of friction creates glorious sparks. Coursing within the heart and mind of singer-songwriter Kristen Rae Bowden is a beautiful turmoil of tenderness and willfulness. It’s a paradoxical sentiment also evident in her artistic sensibilities. On her masterful

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The right kind of friction creates glorious sparks. Coursing within the heart and mind of singer-songwriter Kristen Rae Bowden is a beautiful turmoil of tenderness and willfulness. It’s a paradoxical sentiment also evident in her artistic sensibilities. On her masterful debut, Language and Mirrors, she fluidly, and authentically, inhabits earthy Americana and majestic orchestral rock.

Select album standouts include “Driven To Roam,” “Party On The Mountain,” “Solid Ground,” and “My Father’s Daughter.” “Driven To Roam” opens with a lilting melancholy piano figure, ethereal guitars, and smoldering vocals. Its orchestral expanse surges upward dramatically as the song unfolds, lending the feeling of an emotional odyssey. The country-tinged “Party On The Mountain” pines for those carefree nights of yore drinking in the fields of her hometown of Boone, North Carolina with her high school buds. “It’s one of the few songs I’ve written not inspired by feelings of frustration,” Kristen says with a good-natured laugh. “Solid Ground” is the crossroads where Kristen’s earthy folksiness melds with her brazen prog-rock sensibility.

The poignant and autobiographical ballad “My Father’s Daughter” might be the closest song to Kristen’s heart on Language And Mirrors. Her father passed away when she was 18 (her father was 61 when Kristen was born). The track details the complexities inherent in having a relationship with someone with a similar story, and touches on the meaning of the album title, Language and Mirrors. Kristen expands: “The album’s concept centers around how the people closest to us reflect ourselves. They are our metaphorical mirrors.”

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Language & Mirrors: CD
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The right kind of friction creates glorious sparks. Coursing within the heart and mind of singer-songwriter Kristen Rae Bowden is a beautiful turmoil of tenderness and willfulness. It’s a paradoxical sentiment also evident in her artistic sensibilities. On her masterful debut, Language and Mirrors, she fluidly, and authentically, inhabits earthy Americana and majestic orchestral rock.

Select album standouts include “Driven To Roam,” “Party On The Mountain,” “Solid Ground,” and “My Father’s Daughter.” “Driven To Roam” opens with a lilting melancholy piano figure, ethereal guitars, and smoldering vocals. Its orchestral expanse surges upward dramatically as the song unfolds, lending the feeling of an emotional odyssey. The country-tinged “Party On The Mountain” pines for those carefree nights of yore drinking in the fields of her hometown of Boone, North Carolina with her high school buds. “It’s one of the few songs I’ve written not inspired by feelings of frustration,” Kristen says with a good-natured laugh. “Solid Ground” is the crossroads where Kristen’s earthy folksiness melds with her brazen prog-rock sensibility.

The poignant and autobiographical ballad “My Father’s Daughter” might be the closest song to Kristen’s heart on Language And Mirrors. Her father passed away when she was 18 (her father was 61 when Kristen was born). The track details the complexities inherent in having a relationship with someone with a similar story, and touches on the meaning of the album title, Language and Mirrors. Kristen expands: “The album’s concept centers around how the people closest to us reflect ourselves. They are our metaphorical mirrors.”

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