Laura Zarougian dwells in an area of reflection and depending on “Again to Me,” a captivating, churning, and emotionally charged outpouring of uncooked humanity and deep, internal longing.

Stream: “Again to Me” – Laura Zarougian

Driving round that outdated make consider, wanting you to point out me what it felt wish to be free…

Tright here’s a heavy ache creeping in from the perimeters of Laura Zarougian’s new single.

It’s the heartfelt craving of nostalgia, combined with the heavy weight of a soul’s isolation that, because of the previous few years, everyone knows oh-so-well. Zarougian’s dusty desert folks is the proper vessel for this emotional upheaval: Her voice is a wellspring of feeling, and her guitar work is without delay tender, tempered, and turbulent. The Chicago-based singer/songwriter dwells in an area of reflection and depending on “Again to Me,” a captivating, churning, and emotionally charged outpouring of uncooked humanity and deep, internal longing.

knockin’ at my door
standing tall
performing like these 4 years
by no means occurred in any respect
nicely we might go to the seaside
however the automotive broke down
that’s alright, i’ll bum round this city

and oh, have you ever forgotten one thing?
and oh, have all of us forgotten one thing?
’trigger all people is aware of
that you simply don’t look again for nothing

Atwood Journal is proud to be premiering the music video for “Again to Me,” Laura Zarougian’s second single and the most recent monitor taken off her forthcoming debut album, Nayri (independently out September 15, 2023). A latest Hudson Valley, New York transplant by means of Chicago, Brooklyn, and earlier than that, Armenia, Zarougian debuted earlier this yr with “Cairo,” a track that speaks to her personal Japanese European and Center Japanese heritage and historical past, whereas introducing her evocative, soul-stirring folks sound. She calls her model “Armenian Cowgirl,” she says, “as a result of the themes are sometimes in regards to the tales of my ancestors, by way of my very own interpretation of the American music I really like.”

We will actually hear that on her newest launch, which explores the methods during which others ebb and movement round us. “Folks come again into our lives unexpectedly – we will look to the previous, attempt to piece it collectively – however like many issues, sense can’t all the time be fabricated from paper puzzles,” Zarougian informed Americana UK about “Again to Me.”

“Again to Me” is a very attractive country-folk track stuffed with candy vocal melodies, soothing pedal metal licks, and a driving, dynamic drum beat. It’s a track constructed on the will for understanding and a ardour to maneuver onward – a sentiment we will all admire at this juncture in time.

Shot in the course of the lockdowns of 2020, the “Again to Me” music video feels heat and homegrown, and sees Zarougian taking part in a plethora of components – to the purpose the place, by way of some intelligent, lo-fi video trickery, it seems as if she’s taking part in the guitar, bass, piano, and drums with 4 completely different variations of herself.

“Mike (my drummer and now husband) and I got here up with the idea for the ‘Again To Me’ video mid pandemic,” she tells Atwood Journal. “We had been fascinated with turning actuality on its head, a actuality which at the moment was fairly dystopian and remoted. With out my bandmates, we created a world which was populated by many variations of myself. I’ll say that I turned a significantly better drummer from operating the track dozens of instances – thanks for the teachings, Mike.”

Full of a hearth that may’t be tamed, “Again to Me” resonates in all the fitting methods.

Aching from the within out, it’s a track of depth and character, ardour and ache. Watching Laura Zarougian’s music video completely on Atwood Journal, and keep tuned for extra from this beautiful singer/songwriter as she prepares to launch her debut album.

Nayri is out September 15, 2023!

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