“The Way it Feels” is Heather's 9th Studio album and it's perhaps her best to date. It is embued with an atmosphere that feels both natural and yet somehow otherworldly. There are echos of Americana, a bit of dark folk – a banjo and some pedal steel here and there - but it still feels very much like a Heather album with her distinctive vocals and great songwriting at its core. She recorded it in Charleston, South Carolina in the heat of the summer in an old house that she says “she walked past several times on the first day looking for the studio because she thought it was an abandoned house”. The sounds that producers, Josh Kaler and Jay Clifford, created around her songs make for a gorgeous laid-back atmosphere injected with hooky guitars and infectious rhythms. It’s a breath of fresh air.
What Heather says about “The Way it Feels”: “New album. New songs. Where did they come from? Good question. I guess the answer is that they came from the same place all my songs have always come from; A place that is a bit of a mystery to me, to be honest. Part experience, part dream, part longing, part looking back; they come from the place that desires to describe THE WAY IT FEELS; A longing to find The language we aren’t given as a child, to define the stuff we aren’t equipped to speak about but that goes on deep within. I like simplicity. I like creating something beautiful out of something sad, something memorable out of a fleeting moment. I like to distill an event like boiling down the herbs to make a tincture - Like extracting perfume from a rose. I like to create a world you can step into and feel something you’ve forgotten you felt, or remind you of a part of yourself that you once knew. I don’t think my record will change the world, but it might give you an interesting place to spend an hour. It’s a window into my soul and maybe might unlock a few doors into your own.
One more thing - Please listen to this as an album. Call me old fashioned, but I like to think I’m taking you on a journey. It’s planned carefully. People don’t put on albums like they used to. Their concentration spans are shorter and they’re hungry for instant gratification. But the art of the album is still alive. Sit back. Close your eyes; Unless of course you’re driving your car, which I actually highly recommend as a good place to listen to music!”
Tracklist:
- Treehouse
- Sea Glass
- The Archaeologist
- Girls on The Mountain
- Lie Down In The Bed You've Made
- On My Radar
- Sleeping Dogs
- Sea Change
- This Humanness
- I'm Air
- Women's Hand
- Moon River Days