Last month, Laura Stevenson announced her latest album, The Big Freeze, with "Living Room, NY," a song that, like the rest of the tracks on The Big Freeze, was recorded in her childhood bedroom.
Her next single, "Value Inn," also takes its name from a location, but rather than the comfort of something familiar, this one's weighed down by uncertainty and unknown. "And in a Value Inn, I dig at my skin," Stevenson sings as her guitar crashes behind her for a brief moment. "With a travel kit in the fluorescence/ Because I'm lumbering, 'cause I want to be gone." The song is quiet, but it's not still -- it has all the intensity of a black storm cloud rolling in.
Listen below.
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TOUR DATES:
03/14Austin, TX @ SXSW
05/03Washington DC @ Black Cat
05/12Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge
05/14Vancouver, BC @ Biltmore
05/15Seattle, WA @ Vera Project
05/17San Francisco, CA @ Bottom Of The Hill
05/18Los Angeles, CA @ Bootleg Theatre
05/22Boston, MA @ Sinclair
05/23Philadelphia, PA @ PhilaMOCA
05/24Brooklyn, NY @ Rough Trade
05/25Burlington, VT @ Arts Riot
05/29Chicago, IL @ Beat Kitchen
05/30Grand Rapids, MI @ Pyramid Scheme
06/03Minneapolis, MN @ 7th Street Entry
06/05 Denver, CO @ Marquis Theater
06/06Madison, WI @ Memorial Union Terrace / University of Wisconsin
06/13 Bethel Woods, NY @ Mountain Jam
The Big Freeze is out 3/29 via Don Giovanni Records. Pre-order it here.
