Dana Gavanski announces new album, shares “Indigo Highway”

thefader.com:

Dana Gavanski was blessed with a lovely soprano singing voice, but during the pandemic, it started to fade. She describes her "lost" vocal cords as both a curse a blessing: a curse for obvious reasons, a blessing because it forced her to be more intentional about her music.

Today she's announcing When It Comes, her second studio LP, and sharing "Indigo Highway," her second release since her vocal problems began. (November 2021's "Letting Go" will also appear on the forthcoming record.) The new song comes with an idyllic music video directed and edited by Daisy Dickinson, premiering below. “In many ways this record feels like it is my first,” Gavanski tells The FADER. “When I could use my voice, I had to focus so there is an urgency and greater emotional trajectory than before… it’s very connected to vocal presence, which extended into an existential questioning of my connection to music.

It felt like a battle at times, which I frequently lost.” Gavanski's songs evoke a very specific nostalgia for the outsider pop acts of the '60s and '70s — chamber pop savants like Margo Guryan and acoustic lumineers such as Sybille Baier — whose work was just a titch to quirky to be fully appreciated at the time of its release.

Her current sonic peers include Cate Le Bon, Aldous Harding, and Weyes Blood. But much like the Guryans and Baier's of the past, her sound is unquestionably odder than those of her more established contemporaries.