Nova Scotia's Mo Kenney Releases Fifth Album, 'From Nowhere,' Shares Glimpses of Childhood on Hypnotic Focus Track
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“I sort of thought that getting sober was going to fix all my problems with relationships, and then I would just be fine,” laughs Nova Scotian singer-songwriter Mo Kenney. “Drinking was causing all the issues I was having, but it was just the tip of the iceberg; quitting made all my problems more clear but didn’t resolve any of them.”
The artist’s just-released fifth studio album, From Nowhere, delves into the alt-folk singer-songwriter’s subsequent investigations into the root causes of their interpersonal dramas, occupying that liminal and trepidatious time when one is compelled to move but unsure where they might be headed.
The album’s nursery rhyme-like title track, “From Nowhere,” captures an unsettling yet dream-like feeling, as Kenney and their friend, keys player Siobhan Martin, depict Kenney’s childhood growing up in the “middle of nowhere” in Nova Scotia. “It happened to me, it happened to me like it happened to you,” Kenney gently calls during the song’s chorus over an eerie organ melody played by Martin.
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It happened to me like it happened to you
On From Nowhere, Kenney shifts through lush arrangements that touch on dreamy folk, sparse alt-country, and warm, hazed-out lo-fi pop. Everything is up for interpretation and nothing is fixed. In their lyrics, Kenney opts instead to defy definition, making room for non-linear and fragmentary sentiments that challenge their own feelings about personal growth, acknowledge the slippery and shadowy nature of memory, and build love songs that conjure the bonds of friendship just as much as they hint at romance.
From Nowhere’s intimate subject matter was handled with deft hands by some of Kenney’s nearest and dearest collaborators—Joel Plaskett, Rose Cousins, Victoria Cameron, Jordan Murphy—and recorded, mixed, and engineered by Thomas Stajcer at Plaskett’s Fang Studios in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.
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