“Utilise[s] a combination of violin, guitar, pedal steel and piano to weave soundscapes both intensely personal and more generally familiar. Spaces conjured from the interplay of love and loss, each haunting the other, destined to always coexist.” That’s how we described Lizzy Dutton‘s Amnesia back in 2022, writing about how their sound owed equal debts to classical violin training received during early years in New York State and the country/Americana styles which populated later periods spent in Austin and Nashville. Now Dutton is preparing to release her debut full-length See It All with Anxiety Blanket Records, an album which continues to explore the overlaps and interconnections between chamber pop, classical, indie rock and folk to portray the liminal space between contentment and uncertainty with the personal experience.
Lead single and title track ‘See It All’ is the ideal introduction to the record. The song has roots in a psychosomatic episode which turned out to be an inflection point in Lizzy Dutton’s path towards improving mental health. It opens as a relatively simple folk song but unfurls into something as vivid and enveloping as the experience itself. Alek Barkats and Geoff Saba add piano and clarinet respectively, bringing to life the album’s orchestral sensibilities and furthermore highlighting its ability to be at once inventive and intuitive.
Oh, well I think I’m going mad
I know there’s something there
There’s something thereI hope you see it all
See It All is out on the 25th April via Anxiety Blanket Records and you can pre-order it now.