Beatrix dedicates today’s single to everyone she has loved and lost. She shares, “This one was recorded completely live — I played guitar and sang in a booth and the whole band played with me in separate rooms. Right before we hit record, my producer Philip Etherington said, ‘Are you ready? Your whole life has led up to this moment.’

“I was crying when I heard it back for the first time. The guitar solo Harrison Whitford takes at the end does it for me every time. This was really a synergy of some of my favorite musicians ever all in one room. We didn’t rehearse before this day — they just had a demo of me playing it on guitar and unlike most of the other songs which took meticulous arranging and tweaking, this one felt like lightning in a bottle. We barely touched it and just tried to preserve what really happened in the room for those few minutes.”

Today’s music video for ‘My Angel’ was directed by Rogue Bonaventura. Filmed to look like a home movie, the clip carries the same warmth as the sunny day it was shot on.

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We Swallowed The Sky’s connecting lyrical thread is Kasnetz returning to a long-gone relationship, allowing its ghost to haunt her former love. This ghost is embodied by the pedal steel that weaves between the past, present and future across the album. Where Kasnetz often feels misunderstood, this record is the most in her own form she has ever felt.

Today’s album news arrives with the new single and video ‘Class Reunion.’ Kasnetz flexes her storytelling prowess as she paints a picture of the exes running into each other after ten years, sparing not one detail for the listener.

As if a prophecy, she says, “Ten years later, they see each other at a class reunion. He has never quite moved on and desperately wants to talk. There have been a handful of attempts to reconnect over the years, but they’ve always been shut down. He sips a gin and tonic in the corner, working up the nerve to say hello. The conversation is brief and awkward— he fumbles over his words, bragging about his work. He can feel his chance slipping away and starts to have a panic attack. Everyone is pointing and laughing in slow motion. He wakes up, and she’s gone. It wasn’t real — it was just a nightmare. But one thing is true — no one loves him like she did.”

The official video for ‘Class Reunion’ feels like Twin Peaks meets The Office, set in a sterile community center. With a firm grip around commonplace anxiety, it is mesmerizing how Beatrix stares straight into the camera and holds the viewer captive.

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‘Ghosts of Tennessee’ is built upon a staccato of Morse code, a direct translation of the song’s lyrics. Beatrix’s delicate, double-tracked vocals are met with eerily beautiful strings, as she revisits a long-gone relationship, letting its ghost become achingly present. Using pedal steel as the voice of the ghost, the song creates an off-kilter, yearning atmosphere that combines indie rock, folk and chamber-pop; something that takes you somewhere between the past and the future, that isn’t the present.

Beatrix paints the scenery, saying, “Ten years pass… then suddenly, a message. Morse code drones underneath hushed hums and iridescent strings. Love has faded with time – but  something, or someone, remains in limbo. It’s autumn on the quad at Vanderbilt University. The leaves are  golden yellow, burnt orange, and brown— remnants of the seeds from which they were born— just like  the song that plays all these years later. You can’t look away, you can’t turn off the music, you’re too far  gone now… You let it wash over you and surrender.”

In the official video, directed by Rogue Bonaventura, Beatrix is cloaked in the dark, romantic forest. Unsettling, yet serene, she sings straight into the soul of the listener, as she slowly walks her way deeper into the water.

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