It’s official! Indie/alternative recording artist Black Belt Eagle Scout is joining the Saddle Creek Records family. The surprises don’t end there! in honor of the new, the singer and songwriter dropped new single, “” off her forthcoming debut album via the label, Mother of My Children out September 14th which is available for pre-order now.
Recorded in the middle of winter near her hometown in Northwest Washington, Paul’s connection to the landscape’s eerie beauty are palpable throughout as the album traces the full spectrum of confronting buried feelings and the loss of what life was supposed to look like.
Paul reflects, “I wrote this album in the fall of 2016 after two pretty big losses in my life. My mentor, Geneviève Castrée, had just died from pancreatic cancer and the relationship I had with the first woman I loved had drastically lessened and changed.” Heavy and heartbroken, Paul found respite from the weight of such loss in the creation of these songs that “are about grief and love for people, but also about being a native person in what is the United States today.”
Stereogum revealed the full tracklist for the forthcoming project but in the meantime, take a listen to lead single “Soft Stud,” which Paul describes as her “queer anthem” below!
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