CAZIMI

TRACKLIST: 1. Carried Away 2. Modern Dancing 3. Getting It Right 4. Nobody™s Sweetheart 5. Lil™ Vesta 6. Black Obsidian 7. How Far Away 8. Blameless 9. Gemini Moon 10. All Right (Baby™s Got A Way) 11. Holdin™ 12. Only Lies OVERVIEW: In February of 2020, singer-songwriter Caitlin Rose settled in at Nashville™s Sound Emporium Studios for a week of tracking with William Tyler, Brian Kotzur, Jack Lawrence, and Luke Schneider. After a seven-year absence following the release of her sophomore LP, The Stand-Inža self-described Sisyphean nightmare of false starts and career blocksžRose was ready, with the encouragement of close friend and producer Jordan Lehning, to give the rock a final push. šIt happened so fast that there was no time to worry about what could go wrong; all I walked in with was the excitement,› she says. When she and Lehning planned to return for overdubs in early March, neither expected that the world would turn on its head in little more than a week, that a tornado would soon wipe half of east Nashville off the map, or a global pandemic would, as it has for so many others™ projects, further delay completion. Paradoxically, though, sitting with her songs a little longer turned out to be exactly what Rose needed. šI had all the pieces,› she says. šIt just took a while to make them fit. The initial charge of going into the studio with people I trusted and seeing it through was so inspiring, and then the world just stopped. It was a terrifying shift, but Jordan set the path for us and figured out how to utilize this new uncomfortable freedom of time. It led to a process more joyful than any I™ve experienced making music.› The resulting record, CAZIMI, out November 18, 2022 on Names, finds itself released into the world at the exact right time. We™re not quite post-pandemic but we™re certainly post-vibe shift. Things are falling apart, systems are failing in front of us; chaos and danger await us the moment we step out our front doors. The perpetual mood is that of a constant hum of anxiety as we try to cope, with varying degrees of success, with the collective trauma that has consumed us unrelentingly for the past few years. Taking its title from the astrological term for when a planet is in such close, specific proximity to the sun that it™s considered to be in the heart of it, CAZIMI finds the listener at the moment with its examination of trauma, chronicling šthe slow motion unraveling of somebody™s life› in the aftermath. The thing about cazimi is that it™s fleeting, accidental, evenža moment of exaltation that goes just as fast as it comes. It™s a phenomenon that Rose could relate to: šI was never prepared to take on everything that happened to me in my early twenties. Being all of a sudden thrust into spotlights that I had little business being under was rarely empowering, often more so debilitating, and being in the rush of it all, I never could quite catch up,› she explains. šI was living that ˜combust to the sun™ narrative and the burnout was inevitable› A standout staple of Nashville™s rock scene, Rose is šwitty, brilliant company› (Pitchfork) and a špromisingly wry lyricist› (The Guardian) with a šwily and impressive blend of melancholy and cheek.› (New York Times) Her 2011 full-length Own Side Now earned her praise for her šsweet, knowing voice and a penchant for lyrics that are far darker› (New York Times), nestled in šsimply adorned song-craft which„never seem constrained by Nashville tropes, old or new.› (BBC Music) PREVIOUS PRESS: Previous press highlights include album reviews in; NME, The Skinny, Washington Post, The Line Of Best Fit, Saving Country Music, The Guardian, Drowned In Sound, The Independent, God Is In the TV, Glide Magazine, Mundane Magazine, Thank Folk For That, Music Ohm, BBC, The Times, The Express, Spin, The Telegraph and many more. There will be a full press campaign on this single. Updates to follow. PREVIOUS RADIO: Previous 6 Music support across the network + Live session with Marc Riley. Full Radio campaign for this single + whole EP. More updates to follow.