JULIANNA RIOLINO’S SOPHOMORE ALBUM, ECHO IN THE DUST, OUT FRIDAY VIA MOONWHISTLE RECORDS
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“With 'Echo in the Dust,' the songwriter is ready to reap the harvest of her creativity. …timelessly charming tracks that both pay homage to the durability of the great American songbook and the stimulus of contemporary rock music.” Exclaim!
“The country-rock storyteller crafts her most self-possessed work yet with Echo in the Dust, a reflection on confidence, creation, and coming into her own.” RANGE
“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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"Channels Judee, Dolly and Emmylou on a lustrous, emotional country-rock set"
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Today, Julianna Riolino is sharing the final single from her new album, Echo In The Dust, out this Friday from Moonwhistle Records. “The Less I Know” ends the record with “a final and triumphant bellow,” says Riolino. “It’s a reminder that true wisdom in life is knowing when to walk away."
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The songs on 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.
By Riolino’s own admission, the album 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.
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“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.
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“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
2025
Nov 12 - San Diego, CA - Soda Bar
Nov 13 - Los Angeles, CA - Peppermint Club
Nov 14 - Sacramento, CA - Old Ironside
Nov 16 - Portland, OR - Mississippi Studios
Nov 17 - Seattle, WA - Sunset Tavern
Nov 18 - Vancouver, BC - Wise Hall
Nov 19 - Kelowna, BC - Broken Hearts Club
Nov 20 - Rossland, BC - Flying Steamshovel
Nov 22 - Calgary, AB - The Palomino
Nov 23 - Edmonton, AB - The Aviary
Nov 25 - Saskatoon, SK - Capitol Music Club
Nov 26 - Regina, SK - The Exchange
Nov 27 - Winnipeg, MB - Side Stage
Nov 29 - Minneapolis, MN - 7th Street Entry
Nov 30 - Milwaukee, WI - Cactus Club
Dec 1 - St Louis, MO - Old Rock House
Dec 2 - Chicago, IL - Hideout Club
Dec 4 - Windsor, ON - Meteor
Dec 5 - Hamilton, ON - Mill’s Hardware
Dec 6 - Toronto, ON - Lee's Palace
2026
Feb 13 - London, ON - Palasad Social Bowl
Feb 14 - Guelph, ON - Sonic Hall
Feb 16 - Richmond, VA - The Camel
Feb 17 - Washington, DC - Songbyrd
Feb 18 - Philadelphia, PA - Kung Fu Necktie
Feb 20 - Brooklyn, NY - Elsewhere Zone One
Feb 21 - Boston, MA - Middle East Upstairs
Feb 22 - Montreal, QC - L'Esco
Feb 24 - Ottawa, ON - 27 Club
Feb 25 - Kingston, ON - Broom Factory
Feb 26 - St Catharines, ON - Warehouse
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
