Carlie Hanson breaks down her second album Wisconsin

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Below, Hanson breaks down each observe on her new album.

“Hopelessness”

For some time, I needed to make a track utilizing vocoder, however nothing caught. I sat down at a keyboard with my collaborator, Joe, and as he struck every chord, I sang a melody off the highest of my head. Within one take, we had structured out “Hopelessness.” This one talks in regards to the acceptance of rising up and the tough actuality of it. An ideal introduction to Wisconsin.

“608”

“608” was one of many first songs I wrote that actually outlined the sound I needed to realize with this venture. My buddy, Dakota, came visiting to my condominium in Silverlake, and we chatted about residence and the issues and other people we miss the place we’re from. I bear in mind reminiscing on the “bluffs” or “hills” in Wisconsin and the way a lot I missed aimlessly driving round in my little Midwest hometown. Dakota performed these stunning guitar chords, and we began riffing some lyric concepts. We introduced what we needed to our pal, Pat Linehan, and sussed out the remainder of the manufacturing. A number of sonic inspiration we pulled from Bon Iver (additionally a Wisconsinite). 

“LSE to LAX”

LSE is the title of the airport in my hometown, La Crosse, and naturally, everyone knows what LAX is. (It’s really not a nonstop flight, so technically I’m mendacity on this title.) This track touches on the emotions I skilled throughout and after a long-distance relationship. If anybody is aware of what being in a long-distance relationship is like, you already know in regards to the fixed battle the place you’re attempting to make it work with the one you like, however you reside so distant from one another that you simply’re continually questioning if it’s value it to be in a lot ache on a regular basis. The reply is sure, if it’s the correct individual. And it was for me.

“Torn”

Everybody is aware of this sense. Whenever I’d return residence to Wisconsin after lacking it for thus lengthy, inside the subsequent week, I’m prepared to maneuver on and get again to work. But then once more, I needed to spend as a lot time as doable with my household and associates. It’s a relentless battle. You can’t have your cake and eat it too sort factor. You need to make sacrifices. 

“Pretender”

The day I wrote “Pretender,” I used to be so pissed off. I felt as if I barely knew myself anymore, and I felt like everyone I used to be surrounded by simply didn’t perceive me, and I didn’t perceive them. I used to be so prepared to surrender at this level. “Do you see yourself at all/Is your heart so out of touch?” is one in every of my favourite lyrics on this one. I like shouting this shit. I’m calling myself out and attempting to carry myself again down to earth. This manufacturing was closely impressed by Third Eye Blind and Tegan and Sara, two enormous inspirations for me!

“Illusion”

This is one in every of my favourite choruses I’ve ever written. “Illusion” is considerably of a tragic acceptance I had as I received a bit older. I spotted that not the whole lot goes to go my method, not the whole lot goes to really feel like how I imagined it to be, and never the whole lot goes to really feel like the way it’s proven within the films. I felt so misplaced once I wrote this, however it’s helped me come out on the opposite aspect and understand that life goes to do regardless of the F it desires, and also you simply have to only roll with it.

“College Boy”

This track is impressed by a pal again residence. One of the sweetest individuals you’ll ever meet, however sadly struggles with anxiousness and despair, which has led to ingesting and getting excessive to suppress these emotions. Drinking, particularly, is a large factor to cross time the place we’re from, particularly through the winter when there isn’t a lot else to do. What I’m attempting to inform my pal on this track is I hope he will get out of this routine and discover a more healthy life-style, someplace the place he can breathe, transfer ahead, and really feel higher.

“Window”

“Window” has a particular place in my coronary heart. My buddies Joe Cecere and Brevin Kim have been all sitting in Joe’s bed room in Santa Monica, ingesting IPAs and jamming. Joe began enjoying these guitar chords, and I sang all these melodies with just about all the ultimate phrases in a single take. It felt so pure, though I didn’t actually know what I used to be saying at first. When I listened again, I actually felt what I used to be singing about was Los Angeles. “Catch myself, standing on the balcony, I look over you, know that you get mad at me” actually resonated as me singing to LA herself. Some songs simply spew out of me with out me understanding what it truly is about but. This one is so particular to me. I like her.

“Blueberry Pancakes”

This track is an ode to my soulmate, who made me attempt blueberry pancakes for the primary time ever only a few years in the past. This track is devoted to her. The verse is impressed by her life and the way it modified dramatically from dwelling in Wisconsin to transferring in with me right here in LA. She is nice like blueberry pancakes.

“Days Like This” 

This track feels so nostalgic for me. I wrote this one reminiscing on the times once I’d simply be sitting on my telephone, in my childhood bed room, it’s raining out, and the whole lot feels so boring and all I needed to do was depart. This first verse lyric “Said I’d leave it all behind and I’d never look back/You were everything I had once” is how I felt about my hometown and life as I knew it once I was youthful, however the track progresses into how I really feel now: “Yeah I used to look up and I hate it, but the rain, I look up and I miss it” and “Hope my family knows I never meant to leave them/Think about it every time I write my feelings.” 

“Fish Out of Water”

In this track, I’m telling the story of a woman I do know. Her title is Samantha. She moved all the way in which from Wisconsin to Los Angeles to be with the one she beloved. She sacrificed a lot, transferring all the way in which throughout the nation, leaving the whole lot she’s recognized behind, for love.

“Wisconsin”

The funky guitar enjoying within the intro actually jogs my memory of Sublime. I needed “Wisconsin” to have the listener really feel like they’re on a fishing boat on the river through the summertime. This is, like “608,” one other love track to Wisconsin. “I could go anywhere and you’ll be right here/I could say anything and you’d wanna hear/After all this the place where I face my fears.” No matter what occurs in my life, my residence will at all times be there for me.