Genre: Folk
Label: New West
Size: 12"
Format: 33RPM,

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The Secret Sisters Saturn Return LP

The Secret Sisters

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NWLP5366
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Gorgeous Harmonies On Vinyl LP!
Produced by Brandi Carlile & The Twins!

2021 Grammy Award Nominee:
• Best American Roots Song: "Cabin"
• Best Folk Album: Saturn Return

The Secret Sisters - Laura and Lydia Rogers - grapple with love and loss on their new album, Saturn Return, the Alabama-based duo's second release for New West Records. Like its predecessor, 2017's Grammy-nominated You Don't Own Me Anymore, the record was produced by Brandi Carlile and Phil and Tim Hanseroth. The elements that made listeners fall in love with the band's 2010 self-titled debut album - sweet, strong voices, carefully crafted musical arrangements, and soul-baring songwriting - are still present, but there's also newfound confidence and individuality.

The album is named after an astrological occurrence in which the planet Saturn returns to the same place in the sky that it occupied at the moment of a person's birth. During this phase, which happens approximately every 29 ½ years, said Laura, a woman "comes into her own and has this awakening in herself about who she is as a person. It can also be a very traumatic time where your whole world just seems to radically shift."

"When this is happening, you begin to feel the pressure of time and awareness of your own mortality," Lydia added. "It brings the important aspects of life into sharper clarity and it centers your mind on what's really important."

Recorded in Carlile's home studio in Washington state, Saturn Return heralds the arrival of a new era of The Secret Sisters, who both experienced their first Saturn returns while making the record. Carlile challenged the sisters to sing as individuals instead of relying solely on close harmony singing, and for the first time, Laura and Lydia performed separately in the studio. This is also the first album in which The Secret Sisters composed all the songs without any co-writers.

Death and life entwine like newlyweds' fingers throughout Saturn Return. Shortly after the sisters began writing for this album, both of their grandmothers passed away within a week of one other. At the same time, the sisters were preparing to start families of their own.

The record begins with "Silver", a prescient meditation on motherhood and the beauty found in the hard-won wisdom that comes with age, and the sisters share one another's sorrow in closing track "Healer in the Sky", an understated ballad - written by Lydia and sung by Laura - that builds into a moment of catharsis.

Grief never fully disappears, and the joy found in its wake is sweeter because of it. After recording Saturn Return, both Lydia and Laura welcomed their first children. "Hold You Dear", a tender ballad laced with piano and strings, was written in fifteen minutes by a thrilled and terrified Laura the day she learned she was pregnant. Infectious "Hand Over My Heart" captures the freewheeling thrill of finding true love, while "Late Bloomer", written by Lydia, is an anthem celebrating those who, like The Secret Sisters, ignore trends and flourish their own way, at their own time.

With Saturn Return, The Secret Sisters have truly come into their own as artists, songwriters, and singers. "I've come to feel like this is what we were meant to do," said Lydia. "That's a really good feeling."

The fourth album from Alabama sibling duo the Secret Sisters is the stunning country-soul opus their talent has always promised.
-Rolling Stone




Features

  • Vinyl LP
  • Produced by Brandi Carlile, Phil Hanseroth & Tim Hanseroth
  • Mixed by Trina Shoemaker

Selections

Side A:

  1. Late Bloomer
  2. Cabin
  3. Hand Over My Heart
  4. Fair

Side B:

  1. Tin Can Angel
  2. Nowhere, Baby
  3. Hold You Dear
  4. Water Witch
  5. Healer In The Sky

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