Stream Mary Gauthier’s New Album Trouble & Love

Acclaimed singer-songwriter Mary Gauthier‘s latest album, Trouble & Love, is now available to stream via NPR’s First Listen. It’s the New Orleans-born troubadour’s first release in four years.

“I started the process in a lot of grief,” she explains in the album’s press release. “I’d lost a lot. So the first batch of songs was just too sad. It was like walking too close to the fire. I had to back off from it. The truth is that when you’re in the amount of grief I was in, it’s an altered state. Life is not that. You go through that. We human beings have this built-in healing mechanism that’s always pushing us toward life. I didn’t want to write just darkness, because that’s not the truth. I had to write through the darkness to get to the truth. Writing helped me back onto my feet again. This record is about getting to a new normal. It’s a transformation record.”

The thematic undercurrent of the album is quite literally about finding trouble in love. “For me, love has been a real challenge,” Gauthier says. “Attachment has been a challenge. This record is about losing an attachment I actually made. The loss of it was devastating because I hadn’t fully attached before to anyone. The good news is that I can. The even better news is that I can, and I can lose, and live. Not only do I live, but I’ve got a strength that I never had before.”

Trouble & Love is out June 10.

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