The NYC-based female musician Aerial East will release her album, Try Harder, this Friday 12th February 2021 via Partisan Records. Entirely drum-free, the eclectic folk-tinged album has an array of styles scoring her bittersweet songs about people she has met along the way.
Try Harder is a coming-of-age record of what it is to grow up as a woman in America; a deeply personal album and one which covers Texas, New York, loneliness, suicide, friendships, gender roles, the breaking down of relationships and the beauty of simple things in love. As the daughter of a military family Aerial moved around a lot which adds to the album’s feeling of rootlessness and wanderlust. It’s a beautiful ode to those of us who feel like our edges are rough, that perhaps we don’t always quite fit in.
Watch her video for the lead-track below:
East elaborates on the song’s meaning: “It’s about being on the outside and noticing how some things that seem easy for others might be harder for me. I wrote it quite a while ago and have been playing it live for several years with different arrangements. As the album started to come together, I realized how well this song fit into the emerging theme of alienation. My hope with this record is that people can connect over shared experiences. Maybe even especially experiences of isolation and alienation.”
Pre-save / pre-order HERE.
Photo Credit: Brianna Capozzi