Velvety Vocals + Folky Guitar + Strings
Sounds Like: Alison Krauss | Bonnie Raitt | Brandy Clark
"Leaving the Labyrinth" EP out now...
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Biography:
“I have to do this.”
There’s an uncommon urgency in Lottie’s voice as she describes the drive that fuels her journey. She talks of being on a mission, of feeling guilty when not creating music, and of the regret she’d feel if she didn’t travel this road. She talks of feeling “at odds” with herself and feeling the opposing pulls of a simpler, easier life and this more challenging one that she’s chosen. These are weighty concepts and there’s a weight to her music. It’s haunting and her words linger long after the sound has faded.
Much of Lottie’s debut EP, Leaving The Labyrinth, sprang from the disappointment and disillusionment of a relationship that hadn’t fulfilled its early promise. In fact, as if stealing a scene from an after-school special, she wrote her first song the day she moved to Nashville to start anew – Leaving’s “Every Single Lie.” And she’s right about her need – the cathartic process of writing this collection not only served to further her mission of creating music that has both appeal and substance, but also of moving her life forward and creating inner happiness – another, perhaps more universal, need. Leaving The Labyrinth leaves the listener with “Whole Again,” in which she writes:
You swept me off my feet, so sweet this thing called happy tasted.
And now, because of you, my life don’t seem so wasted.
There’s a buzz within my soul that keeps on hummin’.
There’s a beat within my heart that keeps on drummin’.
I finally found what I’ve been looking for, a love that’s true, and real, and pure.
The night is finally gone, you broke the dawn.
The thing is, there's not a new love. For Lottie, “you” is music and magic and songwriting and God. For Lottie’s listeners, “you” can be any number of things – things that are needed, things they “have” to have.
But there’s also a lighter side. The catharsis of the first album has given way to songs that show off a fiery side of Lottie. As she tackles themes of rebirth, gratitude, survival, and newfound love, she does it from a position of strength and of victory. “When the pendulum swings one way, it always swings back the other, and it's sadness and hardship that make us people of substance and character,” she observes. Her loss was her gain, and in her new material she showcases a wiser, deeper, and tougher traveler along this road – one who is seasoned now to some of its bumps as well as to its breathtaking views.
One of the photos featured on Lottie’s new website is an apt metaphor for her music. She is shown sitting on the ground in front of a broken window, the jagged remnants of the pane still in place along the edges. But she gazes through, with light showing upon her face and legs, looking through the brokenness to the beauty beyond. She will continue along her path and on her mission, and it would seem that it’s just the beginning – “the night is finally gone, you broke the dawn.”
-Brian Horner, Sound Artist Support
