Brandy Clark Brandy Clark LP

An 11x Grammy®-nominee and CMA Award-winning artist, Brandy Clark is one of her generation's most respected songwriters and musicians who is releasing her highly anticipated self-titled album. Produced by nine-time Grammy® winner Brandi Carlile, the album showcases Clark's versatility with eleven songs that span the emotional spectrum, including the first single "Buried." Over the course of her celebrated career, Clark has released three acclaimed albums including 2020's Your Life Is a Record, which landed on best-of-the-year lists at Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, Variety and more. Of Clark, NPR Music asserts, "a storyteller of the highest caliber," while The New Yorker declares, "No one is writing better country songs than Brandy Clark is" and Slate proclaims, "one of the greatest living short-story-song writers in country (which really means in any genre)." Additionally, Clark has written some of music's most beloved songs including Kacey Musgraves' "Follow Your Arrow," Miranda Lambert's "Mama's Broken Heart" and "A Beautiful Noise" - the Grammy® Song of the Year-nominated duet performed by Brandi Carlile and Alicia Keys. Moreover, adding to her work as a solo artist, Clark, together with longtime collaborator Shane McAnally, composed the music for the Broadway musical comedy Shucked.

Make no mistake, Clark hasn't made a rock album; amplifiers aren't cranked, the rhythms are not juiced. Rather, Carlile cannily revives the immediacy of 12 Stories without sacrificing the subtle blessings bestowed by studio pros. Throughout Brandy Clark, the instrumental is empathetic to the point it can seem almost invisible, letting Clark relax and sigh as she acknowledges insecurities and tells tales of heartbreak, steering away from both the clever wit and story songs that helped build her reputation. It's not a break so much as a shift in focus: Clark's steady lyrical hand and clear voice are placed at the forefront, conveying a sense of quiet strength that seems to call out for the kind of unvarnished production that Carlile provides. Brandy Clark benefits from her songs being heard without the pleasing Nashville accouterments that decorated Big Day in a Small Town and Your Life Is a Record: in these spare settings, the emotional pull of her songs is undeniable.