Blog: Direct Current

Indie darling, singer/songwriter Maria Taylor observes that her third solo effort (due March 31) is all about "personal growth and the change that comes with it." She should know. For Taylor personally, change has meant the end of a relationship, a move to L.A., a new label (Nettwerk) and, for the listener, a lyrical outlook that reflects both a melancholy for the loss of things past and the optimism of things to come. "This change in my life was so so needed," she says, "that, whereas lots of older songs have happy words but a sad undertone, these [...]