Eve Owen - ‘Don’t Let The Ink Dry’

22.5.20 RELEASE

VINYL LP - 37D009LP

The debut album from British singer/songwriter Eve Owen,
Don’t Let the Ink Dry, is a work of raw sensitivity and
uncontained imagination, brought to life over the course of
three transformative years.  During that time, the 20-year-old artist spent her summer
holidays writing and recording in New York with The National’s
Aaron Dessner, immersing herself in a creative exploration that
provided welcome refuge from her sometimes-troubled school
life. As she discovered an entirely new sense of freedom and
belonging, Owen devised a sonic language all her own: frenetic
yet delicate, mercurial yet nuanced enough to capture the most
ephemeral of feelings.

Produced by Dessner at Long Pond Studio (a converted old
farmhouse deep in the Hudson Valley), Don’t Let the Ink Dry
finds Owen embracing her affinity for folk music while pursuing
the endless possibilities in electronic experimentation.

“I’ve often felt a bit uncomfortable in myself, and I love how
that came out in the music,” says Owen. “I don’t really care for
songs that flow just right or have a perfect cadence—I’d rather
there be some sort of unnerving element to them. I think
Aaron and I are both attracted to weirdness in music, and we
instinctively went after that without really even talking about
it.”

For his part, Dessner reflects on the first day of their
collaboration: “Eve came up to visit the studio for a day a few
years ago when she was 16. I thought we would record one
song but we ended up working on several in just one day. By
the next morning she had written a few more songs based on
her experience the previous day. This prolific songwriting
continued throughout our work together. Every morning there
would be new songs, written sometimes overnight. I’ve been
lucky to work with some incredibly talented artists and it was
clear to me immediately that Eve was deeply gifted, expressing
herself with such force and sincerity on essentially her first
proper recording day at Long Pond. I was spellbound.”

Tracklisting
1/ Tudor
2/ Lover Not Today
3/ Mother
4/ After The Love
5/ For Redemption
6/ Bluebird
7/ She Says
8/ I Used To Dream In
Color
9/ So Still For You
10/ Blue Moon
11/ 29 Daisy Sweetheart
12/ A Lone Swan