JULIANNA RIOLINO’S SOPHOMORE ALBUM, ECHO IN THE DUST, OUT OCTOBER 24, 2025 VIA MOONWHISTLE RECORDS
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SUMMER TOUR DATES CONTINUE THIS WEEK
“Over a boisterous mix of guitar, banjo, organ, tambourines and more, Riolino's voice soars like a sun rising on a hot summer day. The track is a celebration of growth, acknowledging the good and bad that have led you to become who you are today. That freedom of letting go of the past and moving forward is marked by Riolino's punchy songwriting, as she almost shouts, ‘And we will reap what we sow/ To grow is to be the fruit of our lowest lows!’”
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"twangy, deliriously catchy blast of power-pop" – The New York Times on All Blue
"Channels Judee, Dolly and Emmylou on a lustrous, emotional country-rock set"
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“All Blue strikes near-universal chords through simplicity and clear sentiment…a shining reminder that blue comes in radiant hues” – Exclaim!
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The songs on Julianna Riolino’s upcoming record, Echo In The Dust, consider relationships of all sorts as the foundation for her awakening into a different creative self and person in this world; working through loss, grief, habits, and decisions she once made, seeking clarity in the past before leaving it to move forward. The adage “you don’t know where you’re going until you know where you’ve been” rings especially true on this album.
Today, the southern Ontario artist is sharing another song from sophomore record, “Seed” is the “unfurling of spiritual awakening, like a bud taking to its soil and beginning to grow on its own,” says Riolino. “Roots latched and unfettered in the earth, no duty to retreat. This song is for the ones who realize they deserve better, this song is for the ones who learn how to love themselves beyond measure, this song is for the ones who wanna cut loose! For the ones who start seeing the obtuse. Stand your own ground, and call it like you see it. Destruction and rebirth is the cycle and if so, so be it! So long to the ones who want to siphon your gusts, be your own seed and let it echo in the dust!”
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MORE ABOUT ECHO IN THE DUST
By Riolino’s own admission, Echo In The Dust is different from her debut, All Blue. She breathes new confidence into her work. The celebrated songwriter is soft as she is tough on these songs; seeing the benefit of laying down armour and splitting her heart open so that we may get a glimpse of our own.
“What I'm talking about on Echo In The Dust are universally felt: you can have a romantic relationship, friendship, or professional relationship and start to identify as you grow and learn the toxic parts that can exist in all of those,” Riolino explains. “You think, ‘why do I feel bad? Why is this happening again?’ But I'm allowing this to happen because I haven't told myself I deserve better. This record helped me learn to accept and love myself. To put myself first and stand on my own two feet.”
After non-stop touring for other projects she has since left, and wrapping up live promotion for All Blue, Riolino began recording for this new album in 2024 at Gold Standard Recorders in Toronto. While she played guitar, she also tapped her regular collaborators, Matthew “Roddy” Kuester to play bass and guitar, Peter Landi on drums, Thomas Hammerton on piano and synth, and producer of the album Aaron Goldstein on pedal steel. On top of that, a whole host of other instrumentalists rounded out the sound of the album including Alex Edkins (Weird Nightmare, Metz) on guitar for “Full Moon”, “Like a Rembrandt”, and “The Less I Know”, and Nashville’s Sean Thompson on guitar for “On A Bluebird’s Wing”.
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The songs on All Blue, Riolino says, had the privilege of being played and workshopped in front of a crowd but the songs that make up Echo In The Dust were written before, during, and after her debut in moments of confusion and clarity. These songs are like journal entries; attempts at deciphering what she wants out of her relationships and creative life in music. She transports us into big feelings layered with guitar twangs, vivid pedal steel and walloping horns, anchored by her tender vocals as though she embodies Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt in one person.
Echo In The Dust builds on the alt-country elements of All Blue. Yet, no algorithm can contain Riolino or what moved her this time around. She cites Roy Orbison, The Roches, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, John Lennon’s “Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy),” and doom metal bands like Om as influences on the album.
“It's kind of punk, it's rock n’ roll, it's still kind of country. It's more rocking than All Blue. It's an amalgamation of everything going on in my mind.”
What makes Riolino a compelling performer and songwriter on this record, and in her career, is how she inhabits past sensations and feelings, reliving and reviving them again to release. While a lot of these experiences are composites and memories, stitched together into 11 tracks, the impressions are of a real, vivid journey through an immense experience of rediscovery toward intuitive knowing.
Riolino needed to unravel before she could clarify who she is now and who she’ll be next, and the result is Echo In the Dust, a beautiful sonic result of what it’s like to stay out of one’s own way.
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TOUR DATES
July 18-20 - Dawson City, YK - Dawson City Music Festival
July 25-26 - Richards Landing, ON - Go North Music Festival
Aug 8-10 - Edmonton, AB - Edmonton Folk Festival
Sept 20 - Cambridge, ON - Fest2Fall
ECHO IN THE DUST TRACKLIST
01 Like A Rembrandt
02 Smile
03 Full Moon
04 Seed
05 Be Good To Your Mother
06 It’s A Shakedown
07 Running
08 Let Me Dream
09 On A Bluebird’s Wing
10 I Wonder
11 The Less I Know