That includes picturesque blue skies and bucolic green-yellow fields, Hayley Reardon’s “Sufficient is Every thing” music video is a fantastically soul-stirring expertise of serenity and self-reflection, stillness and tranquility.

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Writing “Sufficient is Every thing” at that second felt like a quiet returning to a nonetheless place inside me.

Stillness and tranquility are laborious to come back by today, and that’s precisely what makes Hayley Reardon’s new music video so particular. From picturesque blue skies and bucolic green-yellow fields to a wood greenhouse that appears directly sturdy, but ever so fragile, “Sufficient is Every thing” is a fantastically soul-stirring expertise: Certainly one of serenity and self-reflection, heat, and surprise, understanding and self-knowing.

The bravest girl that I do know
Doesn’t maintain a job reply the telephone
From a one bed room beside the ocean
Sufficient is in some way every little thing

The truest place I’ve ever been
Is a tiny room inside my chest
More often than not the doorways are locked
However after I make it there I don’t get misplaced

Atwood Journal is proud to be premiering the Blake Z. Larson-directed music video for “Sufficient is Every thing,” the ultimate monitor off Hayley Reardon’s recently-released six-track EP, Modifications (July 20, 2023 by way of Tone Tree Music). Persevering with within the footsteps of Reardon’s 2022 EP Within the Good Gentle, Modifications (in her personal phrases) “explores and celebrates” a time of speedy development for the Massachusetts-based folk-pop singer/songwriter. It’s a deeply intimate file – one full of weight and knowledge – recorded and produced (identical to its predecessor) with famend Spanish guitarist Pau Figueres in Barcelona.

“Sufficient is Every thing” is the final monitor on the EP, and it dutifully performs the half – providing a send-off of types as Reardon brings her personal visceral reckoning to life, discovering her emotional and religious method residence by a second of interior turbulence and turmoil. “The truest place I’ve ever been is a tiny room inside my chest,” she sings. “More often than not the doorways are locked, however after I make it there I don’t get misplaced.” Her poetry is private, poignant, and highly effective.

So I held the world then put it again
What was I to do with all of that
‘Trigger she’s break up in two and burning crimson
With a pondering coronary heart, a sense head

“I wrote “Sufficient is Every thing” on a borrowed guitar in a subleased room in Berlin,” Reardon tells Atwood Journal. “I had been residing in Europe for occurring 8 months at that time, and touring / touring overseas on and off for just a few years earlier than. I had gathered and gathered and gathered and hardly taken the time to course of all of it… the experiences, relationships, new variations of myself, new pleasure and new ache.”

“Writing “Sufficient is Every thing” at that second felt like a quiet returning to a nonetheless place inside me. Typically the songs come bearing private truths that haven’t in any other case consciously dawned on me but… they’re like little premonitions. On this case, “Sufficient is Every thing” was the messenger that exposed to me that it was time to go residence to America. Inside just a few weeks I used to be in Barcelona recording it, then on my method again to Massachusetts.”

If what I meant to say will get misplaced
Let that be the goal and never the fee
‘Trigger I’ve been flipping cash since I used to be younger
Pondering each selection was so laborious gained

“Whereas within the studio, Pau Figueres (producer), Aniol Bestit (engineer) and I explored producing this monitor out additional, however in the end determined the tune didn’t need far more than its unique, folky stripped-down parts. Pau performed delicate sprinkles of electrical, Spanish guitar, bass and light-weight percussion in opposition to my dwell guitar/ vocal take. All in all, it’s a tune about embracing simplicity, and turning inward for steering.”

So I held the world then put it again
What was I to do with all of that
‘Trigger she’s break up in two and burning crimson
With a pondering coronary heart
A sense head
You may solely dance the road so lengthy
Earlier than the road itself turns into a tune
And evaporated into the air
As for those who had been by no means actually there
Oh, oh

Regardless of the ache from whence it was born, “Sufficient Is Every thing” is a soothing tune bringing a tender daylight and a mild contact to our ears, our hearts, and our souls. Out of her personal innermost reflections, Reardon creates an area the place we are able to join extra deeply with ourselves – and what might presumably be extra lovely, or extra profound, than that?

Hearken to Hayley Reardon’s Modifications EP in its entirety wherever you get your music, and stream her “Sufficient Is Every thing” video completely on Atwood Journal!

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