Earlier this month we previewed Nona Invie‘s forthcoming album Self-soothing, describing how the record “sees the Minneapolis songwriter aim to provide a safe haven of calm within an often terrible contemporary world.” First single ‘Forget My Name’ introduced the release with a meditative sound, what we called “a lesson in the necessity of loosening our grip and letting go those things which do us no good in order to more fully inhabit a healthy sense of self,” and latest track ‘Last Of Our Shadow’ follows in this same spirit.
“This song revolves around the ending of a years-long relationship,” Nona Invie explains. “I felt self-conscious in my small community and spent too many years dampening my presence, not playing music out, hiding my joy and new love for fear of hurting my ex. Some communication finally happened and it was like a cloud lifted and I just felt totally free to be myself and exist in the world.” ‘Last Of Our Shadow’ details this process across its runtime, its slow-building style beginning with mournful quiet but blooming into something warm and affirming, as though quite literally stepping out from beneath a shadow and into the light. “I realized how I had been totally dogged by these feelings of guilt and shame and I needed to move on from the black hole of ruminating I had been living in,” as Invie continues. “I wrote this in a day and never looked back.”
It was the last of our shadow
Loose the hold it had on me
It was the last of our shadowFound a release today
It’s been five years never too late
Because there’s nothing left to say
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Self-soothing will be released on the 28th February via Boiled Records and you can pre-order it now.
