Heather Maloney’s Making Me Break Released

Most recently, Maloney has been named an April “Artist to Watch” at SPIN and the video for lead single “Otherwise” premiered at Diffuser. In addition, the new video for “Day With You” can be streamed here: http://bit.ly/1CuJRlu. Elmore praises the footage, saying, “In this intimate, in-studio footage, the simple, understated instrumentation allows Maloney’s tremendous instrument to shine in its remarkable range, as she hits both piercing high notes and deep, low tones with grace and ease.”

Of the recording process, Reynolds says, “I knew that I wanted to make it fresh and go for new sounds that I hadn’t done on other records.” Maloney further explains her writing process, adding “The sounds I love in indie rock are so lush, and textured, and intricate, like someone spent a lot of time on this, so they must really care…as a singer-songwriter raised on folk, I am drawn to lyrics that that are meaningful, intelligent, tell a story, paint pictures… that care. So I just wanted to make an album that cared musically and lyrically. Some sort of a bleeding heart meeting a distant, unaffected, sparkly rock band.” The album was recorded at Reynolds’ historic studio in Nashville. In 2014, Maloney successfully raised over $30,000 via Kickstarter to help fund the recording.

Heather Maloney’s path to becoming a songwriter is an unusual one. A classically trained vocalist, Maloney has studied opera, improvisational jazz, and music theory in addition to a brief stint studying classic Indian vocals. She has performed alongside Shakey Graves and opened for Lake Street Dive and Rodrigo y Gabriela. She is based in Northampton, MA.

Maloney only began writing her own music after living in a silent mediation retreat for three years and credits the experience to her evolution as a singer-songwriter, explaining, “The biggest motivating factor in writing was probably the experiences that I was having here in my meditation practice…There was the difficulty of it, the suffering of it, and wanting to channel that into something creative, and on the positive side, the insights that came out of my experiences.” Making Me Break is her second record on Signature Sounds.

MAKING ME BREAK TRACK LISTING

1. Linger Longer

2. Otherwise

3. Word For Word

4. Involuntary

5. Making Me Break

6. Dandelion

7. Rather Be Free

8. Hey Serena

9. 1855

10. Oh, Hope, My Tired Friend

11. Day With You

12. Nightstand Drawer

13. Wrecking Ball (iTunes bonus)*

*Miley Cyrus cover

TOUR WITH FULL BAND

April 29                                                   Hartford, CT                                           Infinity Hall‡

April 30                                                    Easton, MD                               Stolz Listening Room

May 1                                                       Vienna, VA                                           Jammin Java* 

May 2                                                   Philadelphia, PA                                            Tin Angel*

May 3                                                    New York, NY                                             Joe’s Pub*

May 7                                                       Becket, MA                                   DreamAway Lodge

May 8                                                      Hudson, NY                                         Club Helsinki*

May 9                                                     Fall River, MA               Narrows Center for the Arts*

May 15                                                 Newmarket, NH                               The Stone Church*

May 16                                                   Portland, ME                        One Longfellow Square*

May 20                                                  Asbury Park, NJ                                               The Saint

May 21                                                   Pittsburgh, PA                                              Club Café*

May 22                                                    Thomas, WV                                 The Purple Fiddle*

May 23                                                   New Hope, PA                        The New Hope Winery*

May 27                                                     Boston, MA                                            The Sinclair§

May 28                                                 Los Angeles, CA                                             Hotel Cafe

May 29                                                San Francisco, CA                             The Independent†† 

June 6                                               Bellows Falls, VT                   Roots on the River Festival

June 7                                                     Concord, NH                       Capitol Center for the Arts

July 9                                                    Middlebury, VT                           Festival On The Green

July 10                                                   Greenfield, MA                              Green River Festival

June 19                                                     Evanston, IL                                                     SPACE

*with Will Dailey

‡ with The Wailin’ Jennys

§A Special Evening with Liz Longley

†† with Frazey Ford