"Albatross" is a meditation on breaking cycles. It explores generational patterns and trauma as the thread between myself and the women who came before me, and makes a pledge to rebirth, freedom, and celebration, and trusting the ‘motions’ of your own way. It’s also about knowing that though we can’t retrieve any of our time spent in and on the past, we are here - for ourselves and for each other - now. There’s a lightness and joy in that realization.

"Albatross" is a direct answer to a question I asked myself often while writing this record: ‘Am I here to break the cycle?’ Sonically, it’s influenced by the simplicity and subtlety of Nick Drake and Arthur Russell, whom I’ve loved for decades. Lyrically, it's an honest expression of my own struggles with self-worth and power, an examination of destructive thought and behavior patterns. It's an offering of love and acceptance to my younger self and a breaking-free of debilitating thoughts and the social conventions that cement them. It directly explores generational cycles and trauma as the thread between myself and the women who came before me. It is a pledge to rebirth, freedom, and celebration - that we, in fact, already know the ‘motions’ of our own way. And while we can’t retrieve any of our time spent in and in the past, we are here - for ourselves and for each other - now.