Eve Adams is set to transport listeners to the sun-baked landscapes of the American Southwest with her forthcoming album, “American Dust,” due out August 22nd, 2025, on Basin Rock. This ten-song desert requiem is a profound exploration of solitude, resilience, and the enduring spirit of the American Dream.
Following 2021’s “Metal Bird,” “American Dust” sees Adams rooting her evocative storytelling in the rich tapestry of the desert. Having herself moved to “the middle of nowhere,” Adams delves into the lives of those who inhabit these mystical lands, particularly honouring the women. As she notes, “There’s something very radical about domestic life. So many women live their entire lives behind closed doors, completely in the shadows. Within those lives is such sacrifice, devotion, and love. I wanted to honour that: the poetry in the mundane, the longing in the repetition. The way love survives boredom and dust and time.”
The album’s opening track and first single, ‘Nowhere Now,’ offers a poignant invitation into this world. Shot by Adams in the American Southwest, it visually immerses the viewer in the album’s core aesthetic. The visual of Adams in this unforgiving landscape brought to mind Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother photograph that she took in 1936; an image that reflected not just poverty and displacement, but also the resilience of a mother facing impossible odds. This theme of resilience and survival is also reflected in Adams’s own statement about the album that she sees as a personal contribution to her family history:
“The same swirling dust that clung to the covered wagons of my ancestors as they crossed the Great American Desert is the same dust my great-great-grandmother swept off her porch during the Dust Bowl of 1936 in Oklahoma, is the same dust that blows in through the cracks in my windows here in the desert, carrying stories from a time long gone”.
This deeply personal connection promises an album as intimate as it is expansive.
Pre-order American Dust: https://eveadams.bandcamp.com/album/american-dust