Teddy Geiger dives into her ‘Teresa,’ her second album beneath the title teddy<3 – an ethereal and achingly intimate alt-pop soundtrack to introspection, reconnection, and self-discovery.

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With my final album, ‘LillyAnna,’ she was a really repressed, offended, darkish angel. ‘Teresa’ type of glows for me and seems like a lantern on a heat foggy evening in a dream forest.

Tright here’s one thing inherently enchanting about Teddy Geiger’s second album as teddy<3.

Her songs are the songs of self-discovery; her music is the music of a soul’s rejuvenation and renewal. In a comfy one-bedroom condo in Madrid, Spain, midway around the globe from her dwelling in Los Angeles and a yr into her transition, Teddy Geiger reconnected with herself.

Some would possibly select to name it a rebirth, however we might liken it to a religious cleanse; as a result of in fact, Teresa has been right here all alongside. It simply took some time for her to introduce herself. An ethereal and achingly intimate alt-pop album, teddy<3’s Teresa is a good looking, passionate soundtrack to introspection, reconnection, and self-discovery. It’s the music of a coronary heart and soul unleashed, freely exploring who’re they’re and who they need to be – and turning these goals into actuality.

You gave me the physique I wrestle
You might give me solace after loss of life
Within the e-book of souls with out a vessel
You might at all times ship me again

To recollect I belong right here
To recollect I belong right here
Time to let it come
Let it go
Let it come, let it go

– “I Belong Right here,” teddy<3

Atwood Journal is proud to be premiering Teresa, Teddy Geiger’s second album beneath her moniker teddy<3. Out November 1, 2023 by way of No matter Information, Teresa arrives 5 extremely lengthy years after 2018’s LillyAnna launched teddy<3 (pronounced “teddy”) to the world, and sees the Grammy-nominated songwriter diving into her depths with unfiltered openness vulnerability and confessionality. Teresa is, fairly actually, a report of Geiger’s innermost journey: Written and recorded throughout her transition 4 years in the past, its eleven songs discover themes of identification, love and romance, human connection and fragility, and a lot extra because the artist will get in contact with herself.

As Geiger places it, “[I’m] elevating my lengthy repressed woman. Celebrating the delivery of a bodily manifested feminine self.”

I’m gonna do what I have to
Marvel what have been we doing? (Nothing)
I’m gonna discover a real love
I’m gonna discover a real love

I’m human
All the time need one thing extra
Taking my coronary heart paid for
Considering I’m tender cuz I get low
Been protecting my coronary heart in limbo
Tryna make lust
It’s easy tho
There’s nothing that might ever fulfill me

‘til I discover a real love
I’m gonna discover a real love

“The imaginative and prescient initially was simply to take some me time,” she tells Atwood Journal. “Go to Spain and have a while to reconnect with myself in a brand new atmosphere. Being in LA, I used to be round lots of people I had identified or who have been conscious of me. So a yr into the transition, I simply actually wished to have that chance to discover the particular person I used to be turning into.”

“It’s actually exhausting for me to not work on music when left to my very own units. I had made a bit of recording arrange in the lounge and was demoing what turned Teresa over 3 months, extra as a private journal, after which in some unspecified time in the future, it simply turned clear this was an album, however I didn’t actually got down to make an album per se. This previous yr of truly placing collectively the bodily vinyl and paintings, and so on. was the place it actually turned a actuality.”

I really feel like with Teresa, I deserted a number of what I’ve discovered, and actually let myself play.

Geiger describes her album as “bathtub rock.” The title Teresa, she explains, is one which she herself has come to embrace over the previous few years.

“One evening on the road, our group had a bit of impromptu mixer with one other group we have been passing,” she chuckles. “One of many ladies thought my title was Tere, and began calling me Teresa and it simply caught with me.”

“I began writing it so much on fogged home windows, and so on. via this time of female self-discovery and exploration. With my final album, Lillyanna, she was a really repressed offended, darkish angel. Teresa type of glows for me and seems like a lantern on a heat foggy evening in a dream forest.”

In truth, the journey from the visceral and impassioned album opener “I Belong Right here” – a music fueled by conviction and resolve – to the ultimate tracks “Second Time Round” and Twilight” really seems like a late evening’s stroll via some otherworldly dream forest. Geiger’s sonics – a mixture of effected guitars, glistening synths, and extra – are ethereal and hazy, layered and plush. Her voice is an effervescent lightning rod of ardour – a beacon of uncooked emotion and intimate interior reckoning, turning over stone after stone as she finds her new heart and will get to know Teresa on the deepest doable stage.

For Geiger, this album – whereas lengthy within the making – marks a particular milestone in her journey as an artist and as a human. 

“I made a bit of e-book to go along with the vinyl, so I discovered a number of stuff about printing and Adobe software program,” Geiger laughs. “It’s additionally been very fascinating to see how the music enterprise is altering, and algorithms and all that stuff.”

As for listeners’ takeaways, Geiger’s needs are easy. “I hope they get pleasure from.”

Expertise the complete report by way of our under stream, and peek inside teddy<3’s Teresa with Atwood Journal as Teddy Geiger takes us track-by-track via the music and lyrics of her new album!

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I Belong Right here

This was truly the primary music I labored on for the album. I had rented a one-bedroom condo in Malasaña in Madrid, to spend a while within the artistic course of. I had been working, doing a number of “pace courting” classes in LA. I are likely to lean introvert, and I’ve at all times spent a number of time working and processing alone and wished to reconnect to that.

The music has numerous themes of reincarnation, re/establishing a way of religion, from phantasm to readability.

By no means Sufficient

This one was early within the course of as properly. Mainly enthusiastic about infinity. A relentless discovery as every thing round us modifications. Season after season, no finish no starting. Always rising and studying how we exist on the planet, re-negotiating our boundaries. Creating a brand new language. All the time looking for extra, reaching out past the boundaries of our understanding.

True Love

This one was born from some filtered noise I had pitched round to make chords. It’s about leaving a snug relationship. Giving myself the area to listen to my very own reality and escape of that despair that comes once I lose reference to myself.

Daniele Luppi did essentially the most wonderful string association. I made a longform intro for the vinyl LP as soon as I heard them, cuz I felt they wanted some area to actually shine via.

In Spades

Deep connection, unstated emotions. This one started in Spain with that intro synth. After which I completed the writing and manufacturing with Evan Voytas in NYC. He introduced that drum really feel and marimba line that basically made the entire thing actually work for me.

Will I Ever

Whereas in Spain, I used to be watching a number of romantic movies, and for the primary time, I used to be actually figuring out with the feminine characters.  For the primary time in my life, I actually let myself be embarrassingly sincere with myself about my emotions and longings. The will to so happy by one particular person. That dream of the attractive jesus.  Daniele’s string preparations actually deliver that longing via 😉

I Made Errors

This one started because the recording does…with that cloud of vocals. This music is about previous loves, acknowledging how a lot that means these relationships have had for me.

Curtains

I’ve at all times wished to look behind the scenes, and I’ve a curiosity to see how issues work. Exploration each exterior and inside. All the time taking issues aside and never fairly placing them again collectively. You realize…curiosity killed the cat. I’m type of a kitty…meow 😉

Extra Than That

I began this music in London with Julian, after a pint throughout from Sarm Studios. We simply have been jamming and the entire thing type of popped out similar to that. Then later again in LA, I put some drums, bass, and piano on it.

Second Time Round

Rising up, elevating my lengthy repressed woman. Celebrating the delivery of a bodily manifested feminine self. Additionally, a refined grieving of a extra masculine existence. I type of felt like passing into one other life which then received me starting to course of the bodily loss of life of the physique.

Twilight

This one is a few cute little unhappy ghost not being seen. Going unheard.I think about this little being haunting a farm home making an attempt to hook up with the occupant till, on the very finish, they shed a remaining tear and fly off into the candy evening of potentialities.

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