Americana/indie-pop singer-songwriter Kylie Fox has just released a new album, “Sequoia,” and she recently sat down with @skopemag to talk about this fabulous new collection.
@skopemag: Tell us about your amazing new album.
Kylie Fox: The songs on “Sequoia” explore moments when something was taken for granted, relating to my relationships, the women in my life, my environment, my sense of self. I made most of the songs on “Sequoia” during a winter where I had a provincial creation grant. It was a dreamy, creative time.
@skopemag: Tell us about putting this album together.
Kylie: I loved the experience of recording the album with my band and producer, Daniel Ledwell. His studio is on a lake in Nova Scotia, and we recorded it during Thanksgiving weekend. The leaves were changing, the air was cooling, I made a turkey dinner for the band. The album sounds like autumn to me, and the time and place of where it was made can be felt in the music.
@skopemag: What inspired the song “Alberta”?
Kylie: I worked as a tree planter for three seasons. The first summer, I went with my friend and my brother. We worked our first contract in Northern BC. By the time we were finishing the season in Slave Lake, Alberta, I was homesick and in the dumps. On a night off, my friend and I saw a billboard for a rodeo and borrowed my brother’s car to find it. It was raining, and we were in the car forever. Eventually, I pulled into a campground tavern, and a woman behind the bar named Judy told us everything she knew, including that forgiveness is the best practice, and if we ever wanted to be butterflies, we would have to find our cocoons. We never found the rodeo, but left feeling very enlightened.
@skopemag: How did you come up with your album title?
Kylie: The song “Sequoia” seemed to be the mother song of the eleven I chose to record. There’s something serene and sacred in an ancient tree, and the song starts the record in almost a church-like way.
