Indie alt-folk singer-songwriter, Brit Drozda announces her Seashells & Stories EP due October 9 and also shares the video for title track, “Seashells & Stories.” In discussing “Seashells & Stories,” Brit says, “I felt inspired to pull myself out of detachment and escapism. I found myself mindlessly scrolling on my phone, or listening passively to music, or walking past people without looking up. I began to remind myself of a character from Ray Bradbury’s novel, Fahrenheit 451 which inspired the meaning behind the ‘Seashells & Stories’ track. The song is about connecting within our relationships and giving our full attention”.
Brit will be performing in-person and livestream at the Spirit Square for their Sounds on the Square program in Charlotte on September 18 at 7pm. The event is free to the public with social distancing guidelines and limited to 25 people, more info here.
The Charlotte-based singer worked closely with New York producer, Scott Jacoby (Coldplay, Vampire Weekend, Sia) on the 6-track collection that artfully mingles acoustic and electronic elements with soulful and profound lyrics. In discussing the EP, Brit said, “the purpose is to invest in human connection and to learn from interactions,” she offered. “Lyrically, each song is inspired by a different human emotion and responses to life experiences … What moves people and what speaks to them is really important to me.” She continues with “I feel like this EP is an evolution for my sound, and that my music is going to move forward in this vein from here on out,” Brit concluded. “This is exactly what I was envisioning.”
Marking her transition from poetic Americana to poignant electro-organic pop, Brit Drozda’s Seashells & Stories EP mulls the connections that stretch and strain between us with singular melodicism and rare lyrical lucidity. Almost born into music, Brit witnessed a Michael Jackson concert from the womb and was attending shows with her parents even as a toddler. Growing up in Purchase, N.Y. music was at the center of most family outings. Broadway shows ignited her joy in singing, which the 6-year-old Brit honed on a cassette karaoke machine. Classical piano lessons were a constant from kindergarten through college. She began singing and putting words to her older brother’s compositions, and by high school had made her first solo recording: a song written for her dying grandfather.
Brit minored in music at Davidson College, including a summer program at Berklee College of Music. Meanwhile, she was listening to the likes of Ingrid Michaelson, Regina Spektor, the Wallflowers, and especially Coldplay. She toured in a band with her brother that she describes as “The Killers meets No Doubt.” But then there were more folk-flecked influences, like Nickel Creek and The Weepies.
“I’ve always had extremely eclectic musical tastes,” she said. “The constant that runs through is that very rarely do I find songs truly interesting and moving without some sort of lyrical component that kind of jolts me.”
