Charlie Belle has been releasing music since they were kids; Now, as twenty-something siblings, they represent for Black, queer youth.

“What Is This” single from Jendayi & Gyasi explores anxiety, with its “cool, breezy arrangement,” “intoxicating allure,” “sobering lyrics.”

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Charlie Belle (L-R): Jendayi Bonds, Gyasi Bonds. Photo by Nehemiah Brent.

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Charlie Belle | In The Press

“Definitely a band you want to know.” — AfroPunk

“Wanna feel good? Press play.” — Vice

“An unabashedly vibrant blend of sound.” — American Songwriter

“Easygoing yet innovative vibes.” — NYLON

“The most infectious kind of power-pop.” — Wired

“Outstanding.” — NPR

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[STREAM]: https://fanatic.lnk.to/CharlieBelle-WhatIsThis
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“What Is This” is the new single from Jendayi and Gyasi Bonds aka sister-brother duo Charlie Belle.
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“Backed by a cool, breezy arrangement, the melody flows effortlessly.” — Lost In The Manor
“An endlessly interesting release to dissect and pick apart, both thanks to the intoxicating allure of the sound and its sobering lyrics.” — CLOUT
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“Helicopters flying... filming people dying. Got a roof and it’s downtown. I can hear the sirens.”
“The ‘roof’ isn’t just a physical place,” Gyasi says, going on to give an insight that only a sibling could have. “It symbolizes Jendayi’s mind and her anxious, scary, stressful thoughts.”
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Charlie Belle

“What Is This”

Out Now

(S/R)

Streaming Link:

STREAM SINGLE

“Helicopters flying... filming people dying. Got a roof and it’s downtown. I can hear the sirens.”

“This lyric is about the George Floyd protests,” Gyasi Bonds of Charlie Belle explains of his sister Jendayi’s lyric, before continuing with an insight that only a sibling could truly have: “The ‘roof’ isn’t just a physical place. It symbolizes Jendayi’s mind and her anxious, scary, stressful thoughts too.

“What Is This,” the new single by Charlie Belle, is out now.

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Charlie Belle | About

 Sibling duo Jendayi and Gyasi Bonds have been the band Charlie Belle for most of their lives. Talented, outspoken, Black, and queer, the sister and brother are perhaps most of all, more experienced at music making than their peers.

 International acclaim arrived when Jendayi and Gyasi were just sixteen and fourteen-years-old. NPR, Nylon, MTV, Vice, and Wired profiled the pair, and Jendayi and Gyasi appeared together on the cover of the Austin Chronicle, their hometown paper at the time.

 Two new singles and videos in 2020 continued the forward motion.

 “We’ve been a band for over a decade and we’ve been Black our whole lives. Now more than ever there’s a spotlight on what Black artists bring to the table in all genres,” Jendayi explained at the time.

 Now, in a 2023 world, as adults living in Brooklyn, Jendayi and Gyasi are products of a time that continually challenges them to be exactly who they are. The maturity that comes with life experience sounds great alongside their musical history on the new Charlie Belle single “What Is This,” out now.

 The new song is a deeper groove than Charlie Belle has ever offered before, and lyrically, it reflects exactly who Jendayi is today.

 “Helicopters flying... filming people dying. Got a roof and it’s downtown. I can hear the sirens.”

The ‘roof’ isn’t just a physical place,” Gyasi says, going on to give an insight that only a sibling could have. “It symbolizes Jendayi’s mind and her anxious, scary, stressful thoughts.”

“It’s bittersweet watching him grow up,” Jendayi says of her thoughtful brother. “We’re so close in age, but just far enough away where I can see what Gyasi is going through from being on the other side of it. What a gift it has been to be on this journey together.”

Jendayi and Gyasi’s journey is not solitary. They speak to us, too:

 “Scared of something that doesn’t exist. Yeah I’m scared of something that doesn’t exist,” they solemnly sing on the “What Is This” chorus. This isn’t just Jendayi’s mind now. It’s everyone at one time or another.

 “Do you feel it too?” Jendayi wonders. “Because the first time Gyasi played this track for me, it gave me chills and I immediately knew we would release it. I was bumping along to it, scrolling through my notes app — where my old lyrics go to die — and I knew in my soul that this song was what these words had been waiting for.”

“With more life behind me, I can express myself with more intention,” Jendayi concludes, referencing the music that Charlie Belle made when they were so much younger. “It is so bizarre gaining recognition for shit you did as a kid, but I don’t want to replace the image people have of us, I want to add to it.”

 “What Is This,” the latest single by sister-brother duo Charlie Belle is out now.

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 Charlie Belle | Links

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Loose Wing slows down for beautiful, out-of-character country number, titled “Country Numbers,” led by Claire Tucker’s haunting vocal melody.

“Societies are willing to sacrifice people’s lives for global dominance,” Tucker states of track’s chilling lyrical themes; New album arrives Nov. 10.

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Loose Wing (L-R):  Bill Patton, Claire Tucker, Aimee Zoe, Jack Peters. Photo credit: Joshua Simons.

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Loose Wing | “Country Numbers”

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“The title of the album, Miracle Baby, is taken from a lyric in ‘Country Numbers.’ It's a lyrically abstract song, and one of my favorites on the album. It’s also about life being weird. It’s weird that we put so much pressure on ourselves and others, and weird that we as societies are willing to sacrifice people’s lives for things like global dominance and financial gain.” — Claire Tucker, Loose Wing
Hear “Country Numbers” by Loose Wing at Americana Highways or via your favorite streamer at the link above.
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Loose Wing

Miracle Baby

(Drums & Wires Recordings)

Nov. 10, 2023

Track Listing:

01. Capital Alphabet (STREAM)

02. Skirts

03. Bleeding My Arms

04. Unnatural

05. Country Numbers (STREAM)

06. Kneeling Angelica

07. Dragging Days

08. Distant Lawns

09. Saucer Eyes

10. Elements

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Loose Wing | “Capital Alphabet”

[STREAM]: https://fanatic.lnk.to/LooseWing-CapitalAlphabet

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“She sings it with such beauty and gusto, it’s hard not to believe for the duration of a three-minute pop song that anything is possible.” — For The Rabbits

“It’s a gritty and defiant indie pop song that rallies against the soul-sucking drudgery enforced on many by the capitalist overlords.” — Various Small Flames

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Loose Wing | About

Legendary journalist Greil Marcus stays true to his reputation as a scholar of modern rock’s intersection with rock history when noting in a 2019 Rolling Stone column that “some of the same dirt rubbed off” in regard to how Seattle foursome Loose Wing picked up mess from fellow Emerald City singer Merilee Rush, best-known for her 1968 hit “Angel of the Morning.” 

Loose Wing hasn’t cleaned up completely since its critically praised debut album — “Loose Wing are serving as an example that the area’s still got it,” says UPROXX. Instead the band, led by songwriter Claire Tucker, has further focused its pounding and present sound via the upcoming Miracle Baby (Nov. 10, Drums & Wires Recordings.)

Miracle Baby delivers an even more potent version of Loose Wing’s ability to capture themes of “isolation, intimacy, and teen angst that has yet to be outgrown” (The Big Takeover), recalling Neko Case or Low — Tucker recently organized a benefit concert to benefit Low’s surviving member Alan Sparhawk following the untimely passing of Mimi Parker — set loose through the lens of Throwing Muses.

Fans of PJ Harvey, Kate Bush, and Guided By Voices will also understand.

Much of Miracle Baby was recorded at Bear Creek Studios in Woodinville, WA where another sonic touchstone — U.F.O.F. by Big Thief — was produced. Being at Bear Creek made an impression on Tucker, and on the record.

“It felt like a great place to immerse ourselves in the recording process and to find inspiration,” Tucker members. “It was a bit of a rock and roll vacation. The studio has a little apartment area, where we would work on overdub ideas on the grand piano, vintage pump organ, and other instruments. Or we would soak in the hot tub by the creek.”

Things are looking up for the company

They’re gonna buy the moon

Things are looking up for the company

We’ve got a flash sale on single use plastics 

These lyrics are taken from “Capital Alphabet,” the lead track and first single taken from Miracle Baby. “I had a web development job I hated,” Tucker explains. “I was in way over my head and having panic attacks while driving to work.”

“Capital Alphabet” is a perfect example of Tucker’s ability to make plain complex feelings of anxiety about consumerism, and the rest of Miracle Baby repeats that tension, albeit around more personal reflections on Tucker’s sense of “contemporary humanity.”

While Tucker claims that Miracle Baby is “sort of a grab-bag,” thematically, the album holds together quite well, even with its divergent styles that shouldn’t work on one album, but do.

“We like to keep things interesting,” Tucker (Guitar, Vocals, Keys) says of her bandmates, Jack Peters (Bass), Aimee Zoe (Drums, Percussion,) and Bill Patton (Guitar, Pedal Steel, Vocals, Keys.) “I think we influence each other, and maybe that explains why no two songs on this album sound alike.”

Maybe Greil Marcus’ “dirt rubbed off” reference subconsciously makes Miracle Baby what it is.

Miracle Baby, the second album by Seattle foursome Loose Wing arrives Nov. 10 via Drums & Wires Recordings preceded by the single “Capital Alphabet,” out now.

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Loose Wing | Links

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Loose Wing drops “Capital Alphabet,” “a gritty and defiant indie pop song” that makes it “hard not to believe… that anything is possible.”

Low’s influence on band’s Claire Tucker is subject of KEXP chat ahead of benefit Tucker produced; “Miracle Baby” full-length out Nov. 10.

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Loose Wing (L-R): Aimee Zoe, Jack Peters, Claire Tucker, Bill Patton. Photo credit: Joshua Simons.

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Loose Wing | “Capital Alphabet”

[STREAM]: https://fanatic.lnk.to/LooseWing-CapitalAlphabet

“She sings it with such beauty and gusto, it’s hard not to believe for the duration of a three-minute pop song that anything is possible.” — For The Rabbits

“It’s a gritty and defiant indie pop song that rallies against the soul-sucking drudgery enforced on many by the capitalist overlords.” — Various Small Flames

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Loose Wing

Miracle Baby

(Drums & Wires Recordings)

Nov. 10, 2023

Track Listing:

01. Capital Alphabet (STREAM)

02. Skirts

03. Bleeding My Arms

04. Unnatural

05. Country Numbers (PRE-SAVE)

06. Kneeling Angelica

07. Dragging Days

08. Distant Lawns

09. Saucer Eyes

10. Elements

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Loose Wing | In The Press

“There’s a thinking-it-all-over feeling that calls up ‘Angel of the Morning’ by Merilee Rush and the Turnabouts — another Seattle band, from 50 years ago. They walked the same streets, and maybe some of the same dirt rubbed off. ” — Greil Marcus, Rolling Stone 

“Seattle has produced an unquantifiable amount of outstanding indie rock, and now Loose Wing are serving as an example that the area’s still got it. ” — Uproxx

“Nine songs that fearlessly explore themes of anxiety, isolation, intimacy, and teen angst that has yet to be outgrown. ” — The Big Takeover

“Captures emotional distress with poignant grace.” — Atwood Magazine

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Loose Wing | About

Legendary journalist Greil Marcus stays true to his reputation as a scholar of modern rock’s intersection with rock history when noting in a 2019 Rolling Stone column that “some of the same dirt rubbed off” in regard to how Seattle foursome Loose Wing picked up mess from fellow Emerald City singer Merilee Rush, best-known for her 1968 hit “Angel of the Morning.” 

Loose Wing hasn’t cleaned up completely since its critically praised debut album — “Loose Wing are serving as an example that the area’s still got it,” says UPROXX. Instead the band, led by songwriter Claire Tucker, has further focused its pounding and present sound via the upcoming Miracle Baby (Nov. 10, Drums & Wires Recordings.)

Miracle Baby delivers an even more potent version of Loose Wing’s ability to capture themes of “isolation, intimacy, and teen angst that has yet to be outgrown” (The Big Takeover), recalling Neko Case or Low — Tucker recently organized a benefit concert to benefit Low’s surviving member Alan Sparhawk following the untimely passing of Mimi Parker — set loose through the lens of Throwing Muses.

Fans of PJ Harvey, Kate Bush, and Guided By Voices will also understand.

Much of Miracle Baby was recorded at Bear Creek Studios in Woodinville, WA where another sonic touchstone — U.F.O.F. by Big Thief — was produced. Being at Bear Creek made an impression on Tucker, and on the record.

“It felt like a great place to immerse ourselves in the recording process and to find inspiration,” Tucker members. “It was a bit of a rock and roll vacation. The studio has a little apartment area, where we would work on overdub ideas on the grand piano, vintage pump organ, and other instruments. Or we would soak in the hot tub by the creek.”

Things are looking up for the company

They’re gonna buy the moon

Things are looking up for the company

We’ve got a flash sale on single use plastics 

These lyrics are taken from “Capital Alphabet,” the lead track and first single taken from Miracle Baby. “I had a web development job I hated,” Tucker explains. “I was in way over my head and having panic attacks while driving to work.”

“Capital Alphabet” is a perfect example of Tucker’s ability to make plain complex feelings of anxiety about consumerism, and the rest of Miracle Baby repeats that tension, albeit around more personal reflections on Tucker’s sense of “contemporary humanity.”

While Tucker claims that Miracle Baby is “sort of a grab-bag,” thematically, the album holds together quite well, even with its divergent styles that shouldn’t work on one album, but do.

“We like to keep things interesting,” Tucker (Guitar, Vocals, Keys) says of her bandmates, Jack Peters (Bass), Aimee Zoe (Drums, Percussion,) and Bill Patton (Guitar, Pedal Steel, Vocals, Keys.) “I think we influence each other, and maybe that explains why no two songs on this album sound alike.”

Maybe Greil Marcus’ “dirt rubbed off” reference subconsciously makes Miracle Baby what it is.

Miracle Baby, the second album by Seattle foursome Loose Wing arrives Nov. 10 via Drums & Wires Recordings preceded by the single “Capital Alphabet,” out now.

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Loose Wing | Links

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“Exploring the anxiety that comes with being young and Black in a post-George Floyd world.” Charlie Belle’s stirring single “What Is This,” out today.

Jendayi and Gyasi Bonds are siblings that have been releasing music for most their lives, and as twenty-somethings, represent for Black, queer youth.

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Charlie Belle (L-R): Jendayi Bonds, Gyasi Bonds. Photo by Nehemiah Brent.

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[STREAM]: https://fanatic.lnk.to/CharlieBelle-WhatIsThis
“What Is This” is the new single from Jendayi and Gyasi Bonds aka sister-brother duo Charlie Belle.

“The latest release from the pair is ‘What Is This,’ a track that exemplifies everything that makes their sound and style feel so impactful and real, with the duo exploring the anxiety that comes with being young and Black in a post-George Floyd world.” — CLOUT

“Helicopters flying... filming people dying. Got a roof and it’s downtown. I can hear the sirens.”

“This lyric is about the George Floyd protests,” Gyasi Bonds of Charlie Belle explains of his sister Jendayi’s lyric, before continuing with an insight that only a sibling could truly have: “The ‘roof’ isn’t just a physical place. It symbolizes Jendayi’s mind and her anxious, scary, stressful thoughts too.”

“What Is This,” the new single by Charlie Belle, is out now.

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Charlie Belle | Live

“What Is This” Single Release Party | Sat., Sept. 16

7PM | Ciao Bella Coffee (284 Clarkson Ave., Brooklyn)

RSVP: https://partiful.com/e/7M8lxEjlCv4T2cFtdcDz

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Charlie Belle | In The Press

“Definitely a band you want to know.” — AfroPunk

“Wanna feel good? Press play.” — Vice

“An unabashedly vibrant blend of sound.” — American Songwriter

“Easygoing yet innovative vibes.” — NYLON

“The most infectious kind of power-pop.” — Wired

“Outstanding.” — NPR

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Charlie Belle

“What Is This”

Out Now

(S/R)

Streaming Link:

STREAM SINGLE

“Helicopters flying... filming people dying. Got a roof and it’s downtown. I can hear the sirens.”

“This lyric is about the George Floyd protests,” Gyasi Bonds of Charlie Belle explains of his sister Jendayi’s lyric, before continuing with an insight that only a sibling could truly have: “The ‘roof’ isn’t just a physical place. It symbolizes Jendayi’s mind and her anxious, scary, stressful thoughts too.

“What Is This,” the new single by Charlie Belle, is out now.

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Charlie Belle | About

 Sibling duo Jendayi and Gyasi Bonds have been the band Charlie Belle for most of their lives. Talented, outspoken, Black, and queer, the sister and brother are perhaps most of all, more experienced at music making than their peers.

 International acclaim arrived when Jendayi and Gyasi were just sixteen and fourteen-years-old. NPR, Nylon, MTV, Vice, and Wired profiled the pair, and Jendayi and Gyasi appeared together on the cover of the Austin Chronicle, their hometown paper at the time.

 Two new singles and videos in 2020 continued the forward motion.

 “We’ve been a band for over a decade and we’ve been Black our whole lives. Now more than ever there’s a spotlight on what Black artists bring to the table in all genres,” Jendayi explained at the time.

 Now, in a 2023 world, as adults living in Brooklyn, Jendayi and Gyasi are products of a time that continually challenges them to be exactly who they are. The maturity that comes with life experience sounds great alongside their musical history on the new Charlie Belle single “What Is This,” out now.

 The new song is a deeper groove than Charlie Belle has ever offered before, and lyrically, it reflects exactly who Jendayi is today.

 “Helicopters flying... filming people dying. Got a roof and it’s downtown. I can hear the sirens.”

 “This lyric is about the George Floyd protests,” Gyasi explains, before continuing with an insight that only a sibling could truly have: “The ‘roof’ isn’t just a physical place. It symbolizes Jendayi’s mind and her anxious, scary, stressful thoughts.”

 “It’s bittersweet watching him grow up,” Jendayi says of her thoughtful brother. “We’re so close in age, but just far enough away where I can see what Gyasi is going through from being on the other side of it. What a gift it has been to be on this journey together.”

Jendayi and Gyasi’s journey is not solitary. They speak to us, too:

 “Scared of something that doesn’t exist. Yeah I’m scared of something that doesn’t exist,” they solemnly sing on the “What Is This” chorus. This isn’t just Jendayi’s mind now. It’s everyone at one time or another.

 “Do you feel it too?” Jendayi wonders. “Because the first time Gyasi played this track for me, it gave me chills and I immediately knew we would release it. I was bumping along to it, scrolling through my notes app — where my old lyrics go to die — and I knew in my soul that this song was what these words had been waiting for.”

“With more life behind me, I can express myself with more intention,” Jendayi concludes, referencing the music that Charlie Belle made when they were so much younger. “It is so bizarre gaining recognition for shit you did as a kid, but I don’t want to replace the image people have of us, I want to add to it.”

 “What Is This,” the latest single by sister-brother duo Charlie Belle is out now.

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 Charlie Belle | Links

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“When you take a closer listen, you can hear why it has become an anthem.” New single by The Chapin Sisters is “Today’s Top Tune” at KCRW.

“‘All Through The Night’ will stay with you long after listening. The accompanying video reinforces the song’s emotional impact,” says Americana UK.

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The Chapin Sisters (L-R): Lily Chapin, Abigail Chapin. Photo credit: Seth Thomas.

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“When you take a closer listen, you can hear why it has become an anthem.” — KCRW, Los Angeles

“A warm embrace... the intimate nature of its delivery makes a memorable mark.” — Popmatters

“Just gorgeous. ‘All Through The Night’ will stay with you long after listening.” — Americana UK

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The Chapin Sisters | “All Through The Night”

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[VIDEO]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iE8p2UtY7yc

[STREAM]: https://Fanatic.lnk.to/TheChapinSisters-AllThroughTheNight

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The Chapin Sisters | “All Through The Night” | About

 The Chapin Sisters returned in early 2023 by taking us to “Bergen Street” — “There is something magical going on in this song that’s impossible not to be moved by,” says Folk Radio UK — an ode to the borough Abigail and Lily left behind.

With the upcoming “All Through The Night” (Aug. 18 via Lake Bottom Records), the duo’s second single back on the scene, we learn more about why Abigail and Lily (and their growing families) moved to a more rural life outside the city.

 “I originally wrote ‘All Through The Night’ as a lullaby when my oldest kid was a baby,” Abigail says of the song.

 “I wrote it as an intimate ditty for my kids, but once we added Rusty Santos’ (producer of Animal Collective’s landmark Sung Tongs, along with credits including Panda Bear and Owen Pallett) and Noah Kittinger’s (the musician best known for his viral sensations under the name Bedroom) contributions, it became more of an anthem than a lullaby.”

 Even in its original form as that private little lullaby, there was evidence that “All Through The Night” had the makings of the anthem it has become.

 “We would make up the verses until some of them stuck,” Abigail remembers of nights singing it to her daughter. “She would start mimicking me and singing along, which completely defeated the purpose of trying to get her to sleep.”

 Listen to the finished track and it’s easy to understand the problem. If there is such a thing as a sing-along lullaby, this is it. Anticipating the captivating chorus demands playing on repeat.

 “I never really thought of ‘All Through The Night’ as material for The Chapin Sisters,” Abigail admits. “I never even wrote it down over the years. It would just run through my mind. But, when you remember the lyrics and tune of a song that’s never written down, then there is something there.”

 Now it is running through our minds, too.

 “All Through The Night,” the latest single (and first lullaby) by The Chapin Sisters is out now via Lake Bottom Records.

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 The Chapin Sisters | “Bergen Street”

See the video for “Bergen Street” now at The Bluegrass Situation or at the link below.

“There is an enduring warmth throughout this ode to Brooklyn. A cathartic release and a farewell, not just to a place, but to the memories which they bring back to life here. There is something magical going on in this song that’s impossible not to be moved by.” — Folk Radio UK

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[VIDEO]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbgN-57scy8

 [STREAM]: https://fanatic.lnk.to/TheChapinSisters-BergenStreet

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 The Chapin Sisters | About

The Chapin Sisters make you long to return to a place you may have never been before.

“Bergen Street” is the new single (Out Now, Lake Bottom Records) from Abigail and Lily Chapin, the sibling members of what looks like a folk music dynasty, but in reality, is a proud family that has been making music for decades in the most humble of traditions.

Father Tom Chapin is a Grammy®-winning singer-songwriter, late uncle Harry Chapin is a legendary artist and social justice activist (his #1 hit “Cat’s In The Cradle” is a timeless classic), and grandfather Jim Chapin was an esteemed jazz drummer.

The sisters’ first new music since 2017’s Ferry Boat, “Bergen Street,” which describes a stretch of Brooklyn road with its everyday “soot in the window ruts” and “air that smells of the tire dust” is an example of this humble and expertly crafted music-making.

It is voiced with stirring sisterly “blood harmony” in a way that only a family band – especially one with such a long history – can do.

“Lily wrote ‘Bergen Street’ as she was leaving Brooklyn to move back to the Hudson Valley village that we grew up in,” Abigail explains. “It’s a bittersweet ode. Not a sad moment, exactly, but wistful.

“We thought we’d be city people forever, but during the pandemic, I eventually did the same thing. We packed up our little families and moved back to the woods and the grass and the driveways.”

“I always write songs about places I leave,” Lily confides. “When I was first writing ‘Bergen Street,’ I was still feeling the sting of leaving the city behind. I think it never goes away. The first time I played it for my daughter, she cried.

“It’s hard to process feelings of loss and leaving things behind that you love. This song allowed me to remember what was unique and to allow the memories to become more vivid.”

Brooklyn memories that The Chapin Sisters have built over a lifetime, and for their family, many lifetimes.

“Our family is a Brooklyn family,” Abigail says. “Our Manhattan-born grandmother claimed she had never been to Brooklyn until she moved there at age 30, but her kids adopted a strong identity and connection to Brooklyn Heights.

“The six boys played their first concerts there as The Chapin Brothers in the early 60s and even though the brothers eventually drifted out of the neighborhood, Brooklyn Heights has remained our family touchstone.”

Lily adds, “The history of Brooklyn is steeped in our childhoods. Our Dad’s childhood, his brothers, Grace Church choirboys... Our Uncle Steve and family friend Phil Forbes pushing a piano up and down the street in Red Hook to play tunes at Fort Defiance.”

Even though the sisters are now building their memories outside of Brooklyn, the familial togetherness continues, and not just in front of the microphone.

“We recorded ‘Bergen Street’ at Lily’s house,” Abigail says, “This was surprisingly challenging in ways.

“We’ve got four young children between us, and with our husbands involved in the recording process as well, we needed to rope in grandparents to take turns watching babies, cooking meals, doing dishes, and swinging on swings in the yard.”

This style of working is giving the new recordings by The Chapin Sisters an even more intimate sound, and though it may slow down the process, the process benefits.

“We are slowly making our way through our recordings, one song at a time,” Abigail says. “It’s been interesting to approach it this way, focusing on one thing until it’s done, instead of flitting around from song to song.

“I guess leaving the city is a theme in our lives right now, and it is showing up heavily in this batch of songs that will become our next album.”

Like the brothers who drifted, it is hard to imagine the sisters leaving Brooklyn behind for good.

When I come back

Will the streets recognize my feet?

Will the wind recognize

The air that I breathe?

This thoughtful tribute to Bergen Street – the place The Chapin Sisters left – assures that it will never leave them.

“Bergen Street” is the new single by The Chapin Sisters, out now via Lake Bottom Records.

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