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“Before making this record, I was feeling the furthest from myself that I ever had.” Reflecting on her forthcoming album Excelsior!, Johanna Samuels continues, “There was a lot of cognitive dissonance—wanting to pursue my music while also being able to feel good about who I am as a person. This record is a lot of me identifying what I don’t want to be.”
A wholly personal document, Excelsior! (produced by <a href="spotify:artist:5MXsi1oKkm8LuStuKkMdzu" data-name="Sam Evian">Sam Evian</a>) finds the LA-via-NYC songwriter exploring the nuances of her interpersonal relationships and the importance of listening to each other, understanding that a conversation doesn’t have to end because one person has to be right and the other wrong.
Just as the songs on Excelsior! seek answers through companionship, Samuels calls upon a handful of womxn to provide the album’s backing vocals—a task she’d always performed herself until now. “I made the record mostly with men, and that's a space I find myself in constantly in music,” Samuels says, “so it was a very important and special part of the record to have these different womxn that held me up. I really looked up to all the womxn that sang on the record.” As such, Excelsior! makes space for the voices of <a href="spotify:artist:1EI0B66miJj5Fl408B7E9H" data-name="Courtney Marie Andrews">Courtney Marie Andrews</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:7ovXNdlB2DNSC16TbKgros" data-name="Hannah Cohen">Hannah Cohen</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:2OywDp0ldLitUL5iM8phSf" data-name="A.O. Gerber">A.O. Gerber</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:5JjA5aBhPlK554aaa1RRkd" data-name="Olivia Kaplan">Olivia Kaplan</a>, Maví Lou , and <a href="spotify:artist:6zcDLZ62JsbVM1nLrQMzi4" data-name="Lomelda">Lomelda</a>'s Hannah Read.
A wholly personal document, Excelsior! (produced by <a href="spotify:artist:5MXsi1oKkm8LuStuKkMdzu" data-name="Sam Evian">Sam Evian</a>) finds the LA-via-NYC songwriter exploring the nuances of her interpersonal relationships and the importance of listening to each other, understanding that a conversation doesn’t have to end because one person has to be right and the other wrong.
Just as the songs on Excelsior! seek answers through companionship, Samuels calls upon a handful of womxn to provide the album’s backing vocals—a task she’d always performed herself until now. “I made the record mostly with men, and that's a space I find myself in constantly in music,” Samuels says, “so it was a very important and special part of the record to have these different womxn that held me up. I really looked up to all the womxn that sang on the record.” As such, Excelsior! makes space for the voices of <a href="spotify:artist:1EI0B66miJj5Fl408B7E9H" data-name="Courtney Marie Andrews">Courtney Marie Andrews</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:7ovXNdlB2DNSC16TbKgros" data-name="Hannah Cohen">Hannah Cohen</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:2OywDp0ldLitUL5iM8phSf" data-name="A.O. Gerber">A.O. Gerber</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:5JjA5aBhPlK554aaa1RRkd" data-name="Olivia Kaplan">Olivia Kaplan</a>, Maví Lou , and <a href="spotify:artist:6zcDLZ62JsbVM1nLrQMzi4" data-name="Lomelda">Lomelda</a>'s Hannah Read.
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