ELLEN FROESE SHARES NEW SINGLE “WINDY WAS THE WEATHER” ON THE HEELS OF RECENT SINGLES, “WONDERING WHEN?” AND “SOLITARY SONG”,
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Ellen Froese returns with another new single, “Windy Was The Weather”, which follows previous tracks, “Wondering When?” and “Solitary Song”. “
“Windy Was The Weather” finds Froese tossed and turned by the fickleness of connection. Over bittersweet strums, Froese recalls tryst with a “Siren of Beauty.” Exhibiting a wisdom far beyond her years, Froese laments the volatility of our bodies and minds, with the caveat that there is some pleasure in the uncertainty, of “a rose, both thorny and soft on my neck.” Whipping up a gust of strings and horns, this stirring waltz feels as timeless as autumn itself.
This track is a bit of an indulgent number written after fall spent touring around Europe,” says Froese. “I was riddled with the reckoning of 'big life stuff' upon my return home, and those practicalities weren't blending well with the bittersweet bidding adieu to a lovely season in time.”
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MORE ABOUT ELLEN FROESE
“It’s been a weird year - lots of life changes, maybe some ego-death,” Froese previously shared alongside "Solitary Song”. Between an ADHD diagnosis and cutting back on some vices, her perspective - as a musician, a lover, a human being, has changed.
Froese had been clinging to the sense that she should be making art in a certain way, and she was never quite doing it right—gritting her teeth and writing daily morning pages, only to skip one day and think, “fuck, I guess I’m not creative.” But at this point in Froese’s career—4 full-length albums and many international tours deep—Froese is just trying to reclaim the free-flying feeling of writing “playful songs” as a 15-year-old on her family’s cattle farm.
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Froese’s honeyed voice and wry, down-to-earth lyricism can be heard throughout her last album, For Each Flower Growing, produced with the Sheepdogs’ Sam Corbett. Commingling the sounds of past and present—say, Loretta Lynn meets Adrienne Lenker, with a dollop of good ol’ fashioned rock n’ roll—it feels like Froese is looking you in the eyes as she sings of trying to find “a resolution between my heart and all the others that I had to leave behind.” With all the changes in her life, Froese reckons with all the wonderful feelings—and people—of the past, and the bitter-sweet freedom of moving on.
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Though so much has changed in Froese’s life, one fundamental truth remains: she’s deftly penning head-turning songs that invite the listener to let go of the things that are getting them down. It’s flirting with self-acceptance while indulging in a hearty spoonful of self-deprecation; it’s trying to be “happy in the confidence of a solitary song”; it’s getting your friends on board for some cheeky country-folk tunes. And nobody does those quite like Ellen Froese.
