“With spare instrumentation and unfussy production that evokes the heaviness, as well as the tenderness surrounding relational conflict, “Go Easy” is a contemplative heartstring-tugger of epic proportions.”
Part folk-rock opera, part personal exploration, Daylight, the long-awaited, full-length album from indie-folk artist Angela Josephine, is scheduled for release on May 4, 2018. Featuring Josephine’s talents on a host of instruments (guitar, mandolin, hammered dulcimer, piano, Wurlitzer, organ, synth), the album’s songs range from the cinematic to the subdued, inspired by a season of care-giving and subsequent loss. Josephine gravitated to her origins, the rugged landscape of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and her childhood home.
Recorded in Detroit and Ann Arbor with producer Chris Bathgate, the experience gave Josephine the chance to plumb the depths of her creativity and explore soundscapes to which she is naturally drawn. Today, she unveils “Go Easy,” a track from Daylight, featuring vocals contributed by Bathgate. “Originally, ‘Go Easy’ was a punchy, sexy, guitar-driven song, and words just emerged as I sat playing one night,” she explains. “What presented itself was a conflict that seemed to have a masculine and feminine voice. The masculine was saying ‘go easy on me’ as in, ‘whatever is coming around the bend, take it slow.’ The feminine was contending ‘it ain’t easy on me’ as in, ‘I’m going around that bend, and I’m going now.’”