Artist: Juliana Daugherty
Hometown: Charlottesville, VA
Song:Â “Easier”
Album: Light
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Label: Western Vinyl
In Their Words:Â “I don’t think anyone would describe me as a bleak person, but I do feel like my capacity for sadness — depression, sometimes, and sometimes just garden-variety melancholy — has always been somewhat overgrown. I find my various sadnesses to be infinitely interesting when I’m writing, and deeply boring and unhelpful at almost all other times. To write a song is to externalize a feeling, so that I don’t have to carry it around in my daily life. ‘Easier’ also has the benefit of catharsis: Singing the last section feels a little like howling at the moon.” —Â Juliana Daugherty
Photo credit: Tom Daly