“It’s an album that feels to me like a transformation of heartache, darkness and doubt into hope. The sound that came out of working with producer Pete Min and the great musicians he gathered paired with all my preoccupations and weltschmerz seems to give it the feeling of a concept album and the songs that were personal when I wrote them took on a celestial quality, as if existing in some futuristic story.” – Simone White Hawaii born singer-songwriter Simone White has released eight albums spanning simple acoustic folk, Americana and electronic indie. You may remember her from her records on the U.K. Honest Jon’s label: I am the Man (2007) , Yakiimo (2009) and Silver Silver (2012) all critically acclaimed by Der Spiegel among others (MOJO, Uncut). German Rolling
Stone made a five page focus piece on her in 2009 calling her “one of the really great American songwriters”.
Simone White – Letter To The Last Generation
From the majestic “Tiny Drop” (featuring Andrew Bird on violin), the soaring apocalyptic pop of “This Is All You Felt” to the lost in space Radiohead-like “So It Goes” and the confessional introduction “Shadow Pass”; the album is a sonic journey through a fractured landscape of emotions with White's vocals as the guide. The title track is an apology to the perhaps not too distant future.
