Durant, Erin

***Firetrail, Erin Durant's third album is her most lush, bittersweet and cinematic to date—each track feels like its own liquid film, orchestrated with widely varied textures and instrumentation supporting Durant’s ethereal yet confident vocals. With Firetrail, Durant’s songwriting continues to evolve in surprising ways, mixing honesty and vulnerability with somewhat surreal imagery. Lead single “If Love Had A Name” is a gliding piano and synth-driven love song accompanied by Durant’s ethereal, yet confident vocals.

Produced by Kyp Malone of TV on the Radio, initial recording for Firetrail began in 2021 at Sonic Ranch, a studio outside of Tornillo, Texas right on the U.S./Mexico border. Building on the experimental leanings of her last album Islands (also produced by Kyp Malone), Firetrail pushes even further in this direction, opening the soundscape to synthesizers and full orchestral percussion, giving tracks a broad palette. Otto Hauser returns on percussion, as well as Dave Smoota Smith and Chris DeMeglio on horns. The personnel also expanded, with Jared Samuel on bass and keys and NYC music community heavy hitters Robbie Lee contributing wind and synths to several tracks, and Stuart Bogie clarinet and sax. Additional recording continued throughout 2022 in NYC at Four Foot Studios, engineered by Gabriel Galvin and then mixed by Galvin in 2023.