Electric Heart is the newest album from Nashville musician Jessica Breanne. The title comes from the name of the longtime rock band she fronted. Years after its dissolution and well into a successful solo career, Jessica Breanne has reclaimed it as a descriptor for the fueling fire and self-fulfillment she gets from songwriting and singing. Unlike its thematic predecessor Rosebud Queen, the songs on this record don’t share a single landscape. They traverse different experiences from different periods of time, distilling lessons learned and feelings felt into a concord of wisdom. Her unique, uncontainable voice floats over Southern rock riffs, psychedelic synth runs and flourishing piano. Electric Heart discusses the fear and hunger of being a modern woman, breaking the cycles that hold one back and trying to stay dedicated to making art despite life’s failure and sadness. It features instrumentation from some of Nashville’s best– including bassist Jack Lawrence, guitarist Grant Gustafson and keyboardist Jo Schornikow– and was produced by Jessica Breanne alongside longtime collaborator Jake Davis. She penned all of the songs herself and had a strong hand in their formation and, with full creative control, accomplished a confident, refined sound that wavers between vintage pop, Southern rock and folk. Electric Heart stands strong as the latest installment in Jessica Breanne’s ever-growing and ever-evolving body of work.

Though born and raised in Dallas, Texas, Nashville-based singer-songwriter and artist Andrew Combs can’t say for certain he identifies with any one place in particular. Through years of drawing on ethereal and visceral beauty wherever he can find it, his work is more accurately a measured synthesis of a wide array of “places”: the literal and the figurative, those he has been to and others he has yet to see. His newest full-length album, Sundays (out August 19th), is reflective of those varied places that inform Combs’ creative work. Written on the heels of a mental breakdown Combs had at Christmas of 2020—amid the long, monotonous grind of an ongoing global pandemic—Sundays came together in Nashville in early 2021. In the wake of this debilitating psychological crack-up, Combs turned to the practice of transcendental meditation to find balance and to, in the words of surrealist director David Lynch, “catch the big fish”. Alongside his collaborators, Jordan Lehning and Dominic Billett, Combs would go into the studio every Sunday, the goal being to capture a song he had penned the previous week as he plumbed the depths of his own heart and mind.