First all-new album since 2012 features White’s
trademark “voice like ether” (NPR), “cathartic intimacy” (MOJO). Hear Andrew Bird collaboration “Tiny Drop” now.
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Simone White (Credit: Self-Portrait)
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Simone White | “Letter to
the Last Generation”
[STREAM | MP3]: https://fanatic.lnk.to/SimoneWhite-LetterToTheLastGeneration
Today is the first day of the Global Climate Strike, and
songwriter Simone White has released
the title track of her upcoming album Letter to the Last Generation to
coincide.
Quoting the song’s “environmentally charged” lyrics in
its coverage, Americana
UK writes, “‘First we weren’t sure / Then we ignored / All the way down’
sings Simone White on this imaginary
letter to a future generation enjoying the world we’ve bequeathed them after
our concerted efforts to save the environment.
What’s that? Oh, not so much
enjoying as enduring the legacy of our failure to make any real efforts to
protect the environment.”
Writer Jonathan
Aird continues, “Simone White’s
ethereal vocal is damning of inaction ‘all the signs were there, we simply did
not care / No-one could be blamed for the lies / Everyone was named at the
trials / Those hollow hollow hollow hollow hollow hollow promises.’”
White is currently in production with filmmaker Scott Cohen on a music video for “Letter to the Last Generation,” and is inviting
contributions from fans. White
is asking participants to “Film someone you love, and/or have them film you,
looking directly into the camera lens, thinking about the planet Earth.” More
info about how to get involved can
be found here.
Simone White (feat. Andrew Bird) | “Tiny Drop”
Letter to the Last Generation’s unofficial global theme is also reflected in the
song “Tiny Drop,” featuring
collaboration with fellow singer-songwriter Andrew Bird on violin, which premiered at UN World Environment Day in 2018.
“I wrote ‘Tiny
Drop’ as an anti-war song, but the music video for it focuses on the
effects of plastic pollution in the ocean,” White says. “We're all tiny drops that make up the world. Every
small action you make, every vibration affects the whole.”
Letter to the Last Generation is an album with an atmosphere, a delicate blend of
acoustic instruments and synths, and Simone
White’s “sweetly airy and hypnotic” (NPR)
voice. A natural evolution from her last studio album Silver Silver, White presents a collection of songs
tinged with ache, longing and doubt in an apocalyptic landscape in the
not-too-distant future.
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Simone White
Letter
to the Last Generation
Oct. 18th, 2019
Track
Listing:
01. This Is All You Felt (STREAM | MP3)
02. Letter to the Last Generation (STREAM | MP3)
03. Little Heaven Little Blue
04. So It Goes (STREAM | MP3)
05. Genuine Fake
06. Harvest
07. Tiny Drop (STREAM | MP3 | VIDEO)
08. Rain
09. Shadow Pass
10. Letter to the Last Generation (Demo Version)
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Simone White | More Info
While White’s
activist voice is loud, Letter to the
Last Generation will remind listeners of the “cathartic
intimacy” and “mesmerizing intelligence” (MOJO)
of her masterful songwriting, sung with a voice “like ether” (NPR).
“‘Letter to the
Last Generation’ was originally going to be a one-off song,” White says of the tune that inspired
the album. “But that day of recording felt so right. It was so much fun, we were playing live, everyone in the room. I felt
excited about making a record for the first time in ages and I only really
heard the kind of album I wanted to make on that day.”
That particular group of musicians includes Jebin Bruni (Aimee Mann, Meshell Ndegeocello),
producer Pete Min, who co-wrote
three of the album’s songs with White,
and adored multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter, Andrew Bird. Grammy®-nominated
bassist Kaveh Rastegar (Bruno Mars, CeeLo Green) also appears on the album.
“Kaveh was
asking me how I came up with the melody of the first line of (album track) ‘Genuine Fake,’” White recalls. “He was grooving with it, playing it on the bass,
and I answered him, ‘I don’t know, it was just suddenly there!’”
While the press has rightly praised White’s vocals and lyrics throughout
the years, it is arguably these “suddenly there” melodies that keep people
coming back.
Letter to the Last Generation, the sixth album by once again NYC-based (after 15
years in Los Angeles) singer-songwriter Simone
White, arrives on October 18th.
Simone White is available for
interviews. Contact Josh Bloom
at Fanatic for more information.
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Simone White | Links
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Josh Bloom at Fanatic
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