Nashville-based singer/songwriter Buick Audra doesn’t pull any punches with “Questions,” one of the most personal songs she’s written to date.
“That’s largely because it’s so true,” she says. “It’s about the sometimes painful and futile ways I’ve tried to be seen and known by others—and wondering if I have the ability to change these hardwired tendencies in my lifetime.”
One half of the riff-heavy rock duo Friendship Commanders and a Grammy winner for her work with Joss Stone on 2009’s “This Little Light Of Mine,” Audra is set to release her fourth solo LP, Adult Child, on June 13. She doesn’t shy away from the concept-album tag, calling it a “sonic collage” colored by identity issues, estrangement trauma and the struggle to transcend familial disfunction and one’s own DNA.
Audra recorded the album at Nashville’s revered Sound Emporium Studio A and her own Fort Knockout Studio. For six tracks, she’s joined by drummer Jerry Roe (Friendship Commanders), bassist Lex Price (Silver Seas) and guitarist Kris Donegan. She took a more scaled-down approach on the other three songs, recruiting longtime collaborator Kurt Ballou (Converge) to mix the album.
“Questions For The Gods Of Human Behavior” was the first thing Audra wrote for Adult Child. “As soon as I finished it, I knew I was opening a new chapter of talking about how my upbringing still impacts the ways I move through the world today,” she says.
We’re proud to premiere Buick Audra’s “Questions For The Gods Of Human Behavior.”
—Hobart Rowland
