Rachael Sage Releases New Album MYOPIA Today

Singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer Rachael Sage has released her new album Myopia today via MPress Records. Ahead of the release, Sage shared the full album stream with Curve Magazine. Listen and share Myopia here and via iTunes and Amazon.

Sonically, Myopia is a bold departure for Sage, with a much stronger emphasis on her guitar playing over her usual piano palette, with inventive contributions by Hoboken-based guitarist James Mastro (Patti Smith, Ian Hunter) who Sage affectionately calls "the king of wah." Produced by Sage and her longtime engineer John Shyloski, Myopia was recorded last summer at Carriage House Studios in Stamford, CT as well as at Sage's home studio in NYC's East Village, and you can feel the swelter. The heavily electronic "Haunted By Objects" - on which Sage plays Moog synthesizer - describes the psyche of a hoarder whose only potential recourse may be to set everything on fire, while "This Darkness", a bluesy lamentation about the Dakota Pipeline, reflects the urgency and courage of Native Americans' resistance to environmental desecration; the enemy in the dark is indifference, the iciest kind of blindness.

Sage - whose eclectic list of champions includes UK chart-topping legend Howard Jones, 60's folk icon Judy Collins, and teen dance sensation Maddie Ziegler - possesses a creative outlook that seems perfectly in sync with the beginnings of Spring: "This is a warm-weather record. These are songs about getting out there, thawing things out, and unearthing the truth. Sometimes you can't do that in the dead of winter. But when the sun is shining, even the murkiest future appears hopeful."

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