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• Latest Releases •
“America” - out now! “I wrote this song after a road trip I took with my children a few summers ago. As we drove through some of the most beautiful parts of the country, and then sometimes the most depressing highways filled with all of the same chain restaurants, it got me thinking about the past and the future of this country. I suppose it’s just a song about what freedom really means.” ~Inara
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Inara teamed up with Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters for the single “Sex In Cars: Road Angel Project,” a duet version of the track “Sex In Cars” from George’s release “The Youth of Angst”. Click below to listen:
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“Sex In Cars: Road Angel Project” is the first in a series of “Road Angel Project” releases, which will see all proceeds donated via a partnership with Sweet Relief Musicians Fund. The COVID- 19 Relief Fund at Sweet Relief provides financial assistance to all types of career musicians and music industry workers who have lost income due to the global pandemic.
“The Youth of Angst,” a collection of three tracks produced by Wendy Wang is out now via Release Me Records.
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“The Youth of Angst” is the first in a series of collaborative releases “with a little theme and not the huge pressure of a full album,” George says about how she plans to make this long experiment into something more frequent.
For this release “I wanted to write from the perspective of my younger self, but also with the idea that I could never actually have that perspective again. I suppose this bundle is nostalgic for a time and feeling that isn’t really possible to recreate, or only possible to recreate in my imagination.”
• Albums (LP’s) •
Inara’s discography includes four full-length solo albums to date: All Rise, Accidental Experimental, An Invitation (with Van Dyke Parks) and Dearest Everybody.
Click on an album cover to stream or download tracks. For vinyl, cd’s, merch and goodies from other musical projects, visit the Release Me Records store.
“Dearest Everybody is, despite its seemingly simple presentation, a work born of deep insight…polished and tight, filled with rich, gentle harmonies, melodic hooks, subtle but illustrative textures, and glorious images that find their way inside the listener to create a seemingly private conversation.” -Allmusic
“With her steady, crystalline voice, the only voice heard, George sounds like the still center of a swirling one-woman musical…told in an unmistakably American idiom fusing Broadway and Tin Pan Alley and Copland, spotlighting Inara George as a sophisticated new voice and confirming Van Dyke Parks, at 68, as an inexhaustibly vital national treasure.” - Pitchfork
“For Accidental Experimental, Inara laces her beautiful songs with a mixture of baroque pop, experimental folk, and romantic balladry that fans of both her solo work and band efforts will immediately find familiar and essential.” -KCRW
“Since her voice is clear and lovely, the songs are tuneful without being flashy, and the production is quiet, subtly layered, George makes All Rise seem easy, and it's only when the record is over that it dawns on you what a rich, rewarding album it is.” -Allmusic
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