Katie Blount

Katie Blount has been described as having that extra thing ‘…Blount has that extra thing that’s needed. There’s a mysteriousness to a lot of her music, a sense that there is a story underneath the story’ & is known for her original creative use of lyrics, melodies & music videos with lines like ‘Fingerprint my mind for evidence’ and ‘I’ve been fooled by the weight of a rolling dice that only ever landed in mid-air’. These songs aren’t lighthearted tunes, but ones that draw you into the heart and soul of who we are underneath our disguises.

'The American Song' came from an experience she had in America as she travelled by train for three days straight. Someone told her their whole life story as they headed south, which was full of casualties from a past they had not yet surrendered. Everyone on the train was trying to escape a hurricane and so a story of freedom and escape from the inside and out was born. Talking about 'The American Song' Katie said ‘Even though our stories may be different what we feel is the same.’

Katie recorded & produced the album ‘Dark Water’. She built a home studio and made a vocal booth from an old doctor’s screen she bought on eBay. ‘I tried to keep the production as simple as possible, only adding what the song needed & leaving the rest to breathe.’ She has also created all her music videos by scouring the internet for clips and then splicing them together to create some really interesting sequences that further illustrate the story of the song.