Chicago indie-rock and people musician Tasha has introduced a brand new album. Her third LP is titled All This and So A lot Extra and arrives September 20 through Bayonet. Immediately, she’s sharing the lead single “The Starting,” which comes with a music video directed by none aside from Tomberlin. Within the clip, Tasha goes for an extended stroll throughout New York to purchase flowers, sits in an empty skatepark, and explores public parks. Watch her slice-of-life video beneath.
“As one of many first songs I wrote for this album, ‘The Starting’ appears like an introduction to the journey of self-discovery I discovered myself on all year long to return (and in flip, the songs that emerged),” Tasha defined. “Whereas the track touches on uncertainty, disappointment, and a need for connection, the very first line—‘This isn’t the top/it’s just the start’—encapsulates the sense of hope and chance I continued to reach at after all of it. For me, there’s a lingering pleasure on the finish of Greg Uhlmann’s spinning guitar solo outro—it may be arduous to see within the second, however massive endings are so usually openings to adventures you haven’t even begun to think about.”
All This and So A lot Extra was produced by Gregory Uhlmann and follows Tasha’s 2021 full-length Inform Me What You Miss the Most. It finds Tasha reflecting on a interval of development up till 2023—proper earlier than she joined the Broadway solid of Illinoise, the Tony-winning dance musical by Justin Peck based mostly on Sufjan Stevens’ 2005 album Illinois. Along with “The Starting,” her new 10-track LP additionally consists of the track “Michigan.”
Examine Tasha in “What It’s Wish to Be Black in Indie Music.”
