Photographs / Ella Gillespie Bailey
Story / Mariana González
Blythe Woods has spent years writing at the least one music a day, holding her concepts in notebooks, voice memos, and no matter area she will discover close by. Now, she has began deciding which of these tales she desires to make public.
Her debut album produced by Alex Casnoff, “Loser’s Information to Life,” will arrive on January 15, 2027. The venture’s first two singles present that Woods writes concerning the uncomfortable moments of rising up with out dashing to show them into classes.
“Rowan Wait Up,” Blythe Woods’ first single, begins with a reasonably easy state of affairs. Two pals nonetheless care about one another, however they not know easy methods to speak. The closeness they as soon as shared has step by step light, and each dialog appears to go away a bit extra distance between them. She continues to be attempting to grasp when all the things modified and whether or not there’s something she will do to maintain the connection from falling aside utterly.
“Rowan Wait Up” was launched in July as Woods’ debut single. Its video, directed by Meriel O’Connell, arrived later alongside the album announcement. By then, Woods had already shared “Loser’s Information to Life,” the second preview and the music that provides the album its title.
Woods wrote “Loser’s Information to Life” whereas sitting in her yard and serious about what it appears like not to slot in. She realized that calling somebody a “loser” could be sufficient to put your self on the opposite facet, among the many people who find themselves supposedly common. The music questions that divide and, extra importantly, what some persons are keen to do to keep away from being overlooked.
That doesn’t imply Woods has at all times been snug with being completely different. She admits that she wished to be cool however got here to query what being cool really meant. For her, becoming in just isn’t price it if it comes on the expense of another person. She would somewhat be known as a loser than turn into the type of one that places others right down to get forward.
At their core, each songs are concerning the want to belong. In a single, Woods tries to get better the closeness she as soon as shared with somebody who nonetheless issues to her. Within the different, she decides that pursuing a gaggle’s approval just isn’t worthwhile if she has to vary the best way she treats individuals. She doesn’t declare to have resolved both state of affairs. She writes about them whereas she continues to be attempting to grasp them.
“ROWAN WAIT UP” VIDEO
“LOSER’S GUIDE TO LIFE” VIDEO
For somebody who has spent a lot time writing privately, placing these songs into the world adjustments what they imply past her personal expertise. They’re not solely information of moments she was attempting to make sense of however items of her life that different individuals can now interpret, relate to, or see themselves in. That shift feels particularly becoming for an artist whose writing has at all times been rooted within the uncomfortable elements of being an individual and determining the place you belong. Blythe Woods doesn’t must have these solutions but. There’s something extra fascinating in listening to her work by way of the questions themselves.
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