Carving Canyons

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Carving Canyons is deeply personal and has been described as “a sonic comfort as it simultaneously charts the ripples caused by heartbreak and loneliness as well as what happens when the soul perseveres amidst pain”. It’s almost impossible not to think about Stevie Nicks and Fleetwood Mac when listening to this record: the classic guitar that accompanies the singer’s voice creating a calming yet atmosphere, the harmonies, her deep, warm tone… It’s familiar, but in the best way: it’s comforting, it’s homey. I’d almost say more to my producer and my musicians’ influence over recognizing that my voice can do those things, so they sort of nudge me in that direction.

And once I got back to Iowa in May of 2020, when things were still pretty scary and uncertain – a lot of isolation and social distancing, not knowing when will I be able to hug my parents and all that stuff. L: Yeah and, I mean, talk about working with a total legend – she’s written some of the best songs ever! Is everyone taking responsibility for their emotional world and not going around projecting it on other people? But I do think that, for as much as I felt like a lot of these songs are about me, and they’re very specific, and they’re about MY life – some of the women I wrote with, they had an equally emotional life experience, that they were really their own perspective to the song, too.They were never my main band I listened to, but I definitely LOVE Fleetwood Mac, and I LOVE Stevie Nicks.

Never have I heard an album so easily able to shake me to my core, and yet so deeply cathartic and powerfully uplifting. This is clearly a song that comes from the heart and it’s impossible not to consider it one of the best out of the album. Due to inventory and accounting purposes, we do not exchange items received for different items than originally purchased. AH: Reading the bio, you had a quote in there that really got my attention – the album’s about grief, but also ‘addressing how things are always eventually going to change.Help us continue to keep our web content free and accessible to all – without paywalls or invasive pop-up ads. Lissie says that the breakup, bookended by the pandemic, spurred on the creative outburst that led to this album. Lissie opens up her album with Unravel, a fiery break up ballad that introduces perfectly the main themes of the album. AH: That kind of leads me to Madi Diaz – she co-wrote one of the songs with you, and she’s becoming a favorite of mine, too. So I had a good six months on the farm, just trying to not only process the break-up, but I couldn’t run away, I couldn’t tour, I couldn’t distract myself.

I just kind of have to sit with my feelings and confront myself and sort of try and grow and have self-awareness and emotional intelligence and practice self-care and do all of these things I’ve neglected for so long. I moved back to the Midwest in 2015, and I have 45 acres, and mostly it’s just me and my dog and a garden. My body doesn’t put up with the things it did when I was 25, and I started doing all this stuff, so I’m a little nervous! Still, Lissie primarily uses the setting to look at the fallout from a breakup that occurred early in the era. Carving Canyons' is tinged with loneliness and heartbreak, due to Lissie experiencing a painful breakup during the pandemic.I think it’s just sort of been this subconscious nudge that’s happened over the years, because of comparisons. And we ended up writing over FaceTime, because it was during COVID, and it was right before Thanksgiving, and everyone was getting COVID. It’s a credit to Lissie’s vocal skill that she can make the lines “Hope you feel sad, hope you feel bad / I hope you’re sad” effective.