Beau

Before Beau meant anything more than beautiful, Heather Goldin (singer/songwriter) and Emma Jenney (guitarist/songwriter) were just 13-year-olds improvising on patches of grass in New York City’s Washington Square Park for friends and strangers. Both the daughters of painters, the two became sisters in sound and poetry, weaving through teenage-hood as fast-growing vines around a pillar of self-expression. That was the beginning of Beau, making music best-described as melodic and lyrically impassioned. Sometimes synth dream pop, sometimes bedroom rock, with nods to electronic dance and alternative pop-punk, Beau is determinedly untethered to one particular genre. If in some alternate universe there is a place where The Ronettes, Joanna Newsom, Thom Yorke and Karen O meet, then that is the birthplace of Beau.

Between gigs, life was also happening. Great loves were realized, hearts were broken. Friendships intensified, others faded away. The path forward, once full of nervous expectation, became a place of bittersweet surrender. Once kids shamelessly singing over the traffic of their native Greenwich Village, indie duo Heather Goldin and Emma Jenney of Beau are growing up and telling us how on their sophomore album, Girl Cried Wolf.

Girl Cried Wolf sends a message of reflection and endurance. Whatever you are feeling, you might as well feel it fully. Letting go of the past and embracing the future is rarely a single act. It is a process wherein you might falter.