Joni - Things I Left Behind

Photo credit: Charlotte Patmore

Today sees American-born, London-based songwriter Joni announce her debut album, Things I Left Behind, due out April 11th via her twin homes of Hand In Hive (Divorce, TV Priest, Wyldest), and Keeled Scales in North America. Sharing the record's title track we get a breezy taste of what's to come as its wholesome aesthetic picks up with dainty guitar melodies and haunting vocals depicting the nature of life's losses. Speaking about 'Things I Left Behind', Joni calls it "a reflection on how we're all made up of the things we've lost and left behind. People. Places. Experiences. While writing the lyrics, I was having all these vivid images from my past rush by, almost like lights when you're driving in a tunnel. Little things and big things. Scraping my knee as a kid. Falling in love for the first time. Losing love. Taking mushrooms and calling my childhood best friend. Lying on the grass at night. It's painful to realise you can't hold onto these things physically, but ultimately comforting to know that they sort of become you and you carry them along in some way." Take a listen for yourselves below.

Tour dates:
April 15th | New York, NY - Union Pool * [sold out]
May 8th | London, UK - SJQ

* opening for Hannah Cohen 

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