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Brandi Carlile’s In These Silent Days Is Brilliantly Intimate
Perhaps no artist was better equipped to withstand quarantine, at least from a logistical perspective, than Brandi Carlile. The singer lives on a farm in rural Washington state, about 45 minutes outside Seattle (and 10 minutes from her tiny hometown of Ravensdale). Her core bandmates Phil and Tim Hanseroth are her neighbors, and their families hunkered down together throughout the pandemic. With her songwriting partners conveniently located within her “bubble,” Carlile continued to work, conjuring her aptly titled seventh studio LP In These Silent Days. The anticipated follow-up to her Grammy-winning masterstroke, 2018’s By The Way, I Forgive You, is once again magnificent — a triumphant patchwork of Americana, folk-rock, pop and soul anchored by yet another show-stopping centerpiece in “R...
Brandi Carlile to Return With In These Silent Days, Shares First Single ‘Right on Time’
It’s been a while since we last heard from Brandi Carlile, three years to be exact. Now, the singer-songwriter is back in a big way. Carlile will be releasing In These Silent Days on Oct. 1 via Low Country Sound/Elektra. She’ll team up with producers Dave Cobb and Shooter Jennings, who also helmed her 2018 Grammy-winning breakthrough By the Way, I Forgive You. The first single, a piano-driven ballad called “Right on Time,” can be heard below. The video for the song was directed by Friends/Scream/Ace Ventura: Pet Detective star Courteney Cox, no stranger to music videos herself. [embedded content] Carlile crafted the 10 songs that comprise In These Silent Days with longtime co-conspirators Tim and Phil Hanseroth. The songs were written while Carlile was quarant...
