Erin McCarley calls the music on their debut album, Love Save to empty a document of her search of authenticity in herself and in others, if it sounds heavy for a reason: According to McCarley "Loving You" is about "being honest at the beginning of a new relationship and says "I have nothing left to give" to this amazing person standing right in front of me, "" Sleepwalking "profiles a cynic who can not hear it come back his own way the title track, McCarley was inspired to write a song about the effects of the lack of role models in an orphan World Yet 11 songs collected here (songs that ignited an industry-wide frenzy when McCarley performed them at SXSW earlier this year) pull off the trick that all great pop out: The heavy philosophical lifting with a lightness that increases andan this is elegantly designed deeply melodic music that resounds with echoes of the Beatles and Aimee Mann Alanis Morissette and Amy Winehouse
McCarley grew up in the Dallas suburb of Garland, where she says her parents could not have done a better job up to her and her older sister "It was a very happy home with very little pain to deal with," she explains describing days filled with dance class and choir rehearsal, in a way about her ideal childhood led to an unexpected Wake - up call later in life, "The kind of gave me an unrealistic view of everything "McCarley notes with a laugh" That is not how the world are you? " In McCarley music you can hear her identify the gap between fantasy and reality and denheartbreak that followsr with the discovery
McCarley brand of honesty does not come without the occasional flash of regret, "I've looked back at some of these songs recently and thought, 'Are you serious? I can not believe I put it out there! "Far up on the list of McCarley favorite artists are names that Fiona Apple Patty Griffin and Greg Laswell (the latter co-wrote" Bobblehead ")" I just love how true and raw their lyrics are, "she explains listen to records by these musicians is more than enjoyable for McCarley-it's inspiring "I have a line in one of their songs and I have to stop and write my own," she says McCarley singles out her favorites unique phrasing of the way they have taught her to concentrate not barapå her words but on heres delivery "Their texts are so much stronger because of the way they sing them"
McCarley currently calls Nashville home, but she cut her musical teeth in San Diego where she had moved to pursue a life that was not music at the center During his basic training days she would spend weekends singing with a country cover band for extra money than in San Diego that sells clothes in a shop and hang on the beach, she began thinking not only as a singer but as a songwriter who met different artistic jones "When I discovered songwriting became an addiction says she remembers many days she spent holed up in her house from 8 to 8 doing writing exercises (and staring at the wall) while wearing the same pair of linen trousers "Mosta night I would end up with an unfinished song, but when that day would come when all the pieces would align, and I know this is a song for people to hear it better in the world these are some of the few times that I can go out at night or sit on the couch next to my loved ones and feel peace-like "well done" I can rest at least one second "It was during this wave of creativity that McCarley met producer / writer / musician Jamie Kenney (the rare partner she felt 100 percent comfortable with) and the two began to hone the songs that would make up Love Save the Empty
"It's hard for me to write about being happy," McCarley admits "I prefer to be sad but it's a real place for me, if you hit me that jag is not this dark sulking person if I'm not bubbly by any means either, I guess it is about the fact that I am not afraid of being sorry 'Love Save the Empty come this fall on Universal Republic Records McCarley will spend the summer laying the foundations for album's release with a couple of trips Her goal as an artist is so simple and so deep, so they will "When I'm stage" she says "I'm trying to communicate with every single person out there"
