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Erin McCarley calls the music on her debut album, Love, Save The Empty, a document of her search for authenticity in herself and in others. If that sounds heavy, there’s a reason why: According to McCarley, Loving You is about “being honest at the beginning of a new relationship and saying, ‘I have nothing left to give,’ to this amazing person standing right in front of me.” SleepWalking profiles a cynic that can’t hear it come back his own way. For the title track, Love, Save The Empty, McCarley was inspired to write a song about the effects stemming from a lack of role models in a parentless world.
And yet the 11 songs collected here (songs that ignited an industry-wide frenzy when McCarley performed them at SXSW earlier this year) pull off the trick that all great pop performs: They do heavy philosophical lifting with a lightness that boosts the spirit. This is elegantly crafted, deeply melodic music that resounds with echoes of the Beatles and Aimee Mann, Alanis Morissette and Amy Winehouse.
McCarley grew up in the Dallas suburb of Garland, where she says her parents couldn’t have done a better job raising her and her older sister. “It was a very happy home with very little pain to deal with,” she explains, describing days filled with dance class and choir rehearsal. In a way, though, her ideal childhood led to an unexpected wake-up call later in life. “It kind of gave me an unrealistic view of everything,” McCarley notes with a laugh. “That’s not how the world is, you know?” In McCarley’s music you can hear her charting the distance between fantasy and reality, as well as the heartbreak that inevitably accompanies its discovery.
SleepWalking profiles a cynic that can’t hear it come back his own way. For the title track, Love, Save The Empty, McCarley was inspired to write a song about the effects stemming from a lack of role models in a parentless world.
And yet the 11 songs collected here (songs that ignited an industry-wide frenzy when McCarley performed them at SXSW earlier this year) pull off the trick that all great pop performs: They do heavy philosophical lifting with a lightness that boosts the spirit. This is elegantly crafted, deeply melodic music that resounds with echoes of the Beatles and Aimee Mann, Alanis Morissette and Amy Winehouse.McCarley grew up in the Dallas suburb of Garland, where she says her parents couldn’t have done a better job raising her and her older sister. “It was a very happy home with very little pain to deal with,” she explains, describing days filled with dance class and choir rehearsal. In a way, though, her ideal childhood led to an unexpected wake-up call later in life. “It kind of gave me an unrealistic view of everything,” McCarley notes with a laugh. “That’s not how the world is, you know?” In McCarley’s music you can hear her charting the distance between fantasy and reality, as well as the heartbreak that inevitably accompanies its discovery.
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HankMulder wrote:
I'll say spring or summer.
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Chris639 wrote:
The album is finished! :D Now we just have to wait for a release date.
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unicornpants wrote:
Dear Erin, I'd so entirely love a new album. Love, me.
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lo_castro wrote:
Bobble Head <3
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fankacukierka wrote:
Pony <3
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imsounusual wrote:
album novo? quando?
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lo_castro wrote:
Gorgeous! I love her voice :)
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doomi878 wrote:
Pitter-Pat <3 [3] Pure perfection.
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peppermintprada wrote:
Lovesick Mistake. ♥
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Pitter-Pat <3 [2]
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Pitter-Pat <3
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lteddyl wrote:
Lovesick Mistake on Vampire Diaries ♥ [2]
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fenandz wrote:
Lovesick Mistake on Vampire Diaries ♥
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Vanillaninja2 wrote:
Amazing.
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Draika wrote:
ohhh so nice! :D
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thaty_b wrote:
sweet voice *-* (2
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Chris639 wrote:
We'll have some news about the second album soon she said on her facebook. Can't wait!
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HankMulder wrote:
Hopefully this year.
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StarryLyv wrote:
I want the new album....when it comes out.
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Hello_Alena wrote:
sweet voice *-*
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Lilith Fair & a New Record!
20 May 2010 | from blog.myspace.com/erinmccarley
Hi to the growing Erin McArmy!
Well. Wow. I think we last spoke in 2009. Thank you so much
for every single encouraging word, hug, twitter, download, etc
these past two years. You remind me ever...
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