Sarah Mary Chadwick • Soundtrack • 2025

“Harrowing and emotional with just the power of Chadwick’s voice and piano.”
— BrooklynVegan

“Poetic and raw.”
— Under the Radar Magazine NZ

“Chadwick performs her signature sucker-punch, an elegant kill switch from poetry to blunt reportage, intrinsically linked and blood related to the almost chintzy, dark drama of her piano.”
— Guitar Girl Magazine

“‘Take Me Out To a Bar’...a tragic short story in the form of a song – and intensely relatable.”
— Rolling Stone AU/NZ

“‘Take Me Out To a Bar’ is a devastating, jukebox-worthy heartbreaker.”
— AudioFuzz

“An intense composition in which Chadwick’s raw and powerful voice and piano create a deeply emotional atmosphere … blending childhood memories, identity conflicts, and the search for meaning.”
— TECO APPLE

“...the collection crackles with a spirit of deep spontaneity, deep emotions and an undercurrent of humor that further establishes Chadwick as a singular voice in the contemporary music scene."
— NPR

Sarah Mary Chadwick • Take Me Out To a Bar • 2025

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“Take Me Out To a Bar,” unfolds like a great short story: a self-contained, sunken universe of one-sided desire. On a mid-week evening, the narrator studies her lone reflection in a bar mirror where her lover’s face had floated beside hers before — a man she has to plead with to make love to her in the backseat of his car, or, of all places, on the sprinkler-soaked grass of a public park. (His house is out of the question: he belongs to someone else.) The contemplative lyrics express a relatable tale of turbulent young love while learning one’s worth and boundaries.

Avery Lynch • somebody new • 2024

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With its delicate piano melody and Avery’s soothing vocals, “somebody new” draws listeners in with its raw, unfiltered honesty. The song is a poignant reflection on a love so profound that it transcends personal desires. “It’s about loving someone so deeply that you wish them happiness, even if it means they find it with someone else,” Avery shares. The song’s beauty lies in its simplicity, making it both deeply touching and profoundly resonant.

Anna McClellan • "Like a Painting” • 2024

New Anna McClellan Alert ✧ “Like a Painting” a palpable interplay between emotion and melody is out now

McClellan’s lyrical narrative unfolds like a series of snapshots, each verse a glitchy reminiscence of a love once fervently embraced

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Cloud Cult • As Beautiful As It Hurts • 2024

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Sarah Mary Chadwick • Messages To God, Unadorned • 2024

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🎙️ ifitbeyourwill Ep. 19 • Sarah Mary Chadwick

I had  the immense pleasure of delving into the captivating world of a truly extraordinary musician. Her name is synonymous with emotion, vulnerability, and a musical authenticity that cuts straight to the core. Sarah Mary Chadwick career spans over multiple decades, carving out a niche for herself as a singer-songwriter who fearlessly explores the depths of human experience through her music. Our conversation was truly amazing, as Chadwick's work is an emotional rollercoaster that takes you through the highs and lows of life, love, and everything in between. Her ability to weave poignant lyrics with haunting melodies is nothing short of spellbinding, leaving listeners in awe of the raw honesty she brings to each and every composition. Enjoy. 🎙️ 

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Sarah Mary Chadwick • Someone Else’s Baby • 2023

Cause I'm just a one time wonder
A fickle lover
On close examination made of glass
Winter or summer
Clear skies or thunder
I'm not really here I'm in the past
I'm just a star that never shined
A mountain no one wants to climb
I don't know how to live under the light
But I'm thankful that I've had
The chance to touch the souls I have
I'll take that any day in lieu of life...

"Someone Else's Baby" by Sarah Mary Chadwick. Taken from the album, Messages To God. Out now via Kill Rock Stars.

Messages to God is the eighth solo studio record from Sarah Mary Chadwick. Messages to God is perhaps a more universal record in terms of its content than 2021’s Me and Ennui Are Friends, Baby, yet it is still unquestionably intimate. Like all of Chadwick’s music, the album is centered around her completely singular approach to songwriting and storytelling, delivering one of Chadwick’s most dynamic records to date.

Sarah Mary Chadwick • If I Have It In Me At All • 2023

“I write so many songs that there’s always some casualties, some songs that I love that don’t end up making it onto a record for reasons other than my affection for them. This is one of those songs. It’s a love song written when I felt worried that I didn’t have enough to give. And I guess that still remains to be seen.” - Sarah Mary Chadwick

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Kandle • "Misty Morning" • 2021

"Misty Morning" is about someone standing by me through the darkest times in my life and being shocked that they could love me through it.

Ghostly Kisses • Alone Together (EP) • 2021

Ghostly Kisses is the dreamy pop music of singer songwriter Margaux Sauvé.

The name ‘Ghostly Kisses’ was inspired from reading William Faulkner’s poem 

‘Une ballade des dames perdues’ and seemed like the perfect reflection of her ethereal voice.  

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Illuminine • Interlude Reprise • 2020

Beautiful soothing and indulging piano rework by Lake Isabel, the contemporary classical side project of The Barton Brothers: “[Our] goal was to enrich the arrangement, introduce a new harmonic palette, and create a cinematic arc while keeping the integrity of the original melody.” This gentle piano piece seamlessly fits into the previous well received rework releases of Illuminine’s upcoming piano compilation including artists like Akira Kosemura, Dominique Charpentier and Simeon Walker.

Best of 2019 • Cat Power • Horizon

Mother, I know your face 

Father, still hold your place 

Sister, I'm around you 

Remember me 

Brother, I'm on my way 

I'm visiting

Little sister, I know from where your brown eyes get 

Your face on horizon I cannot see 

Your face on horizon I cannot say

Chan Marshall is in the “Horizon” video, staring reflectively into the middle distance while playing an acoustic guitar. And the video also captures intimate, quiet moments from a few of Marshall’s friends and loved ones, including the pro skater Sean Pablo, the model Tess Sahara, and the actress and artist Lucia Ribisi. 

Sam Miller • "The Stage of Aging" • 2019

Sam Miller is a man of unique talents. A rare musical soul who thrives in our modern day of synthesizers and microchips, but who would be equally content playing Bach fugues in a cathedral filled with orangutans. His musical output is driven by curiosity and exploration, noticeably lacking the self-aggrandizing spirit of so much pop music.

An Orchestrated Impulse • 2019

An Orchestrated Impulse is a flipbook saga of mutual admiration against an electronic landscape. A humble hello that evolves into a hangout. A casual conversation that becomes the desire to communicate across distance, across mediums, in different creative languages to convey a sincere mutual appreciation for and reflection of one another’s perspectives.

Cat Power • Horizon • 2019

Directed by Greg Hunt, who oversaw direction for all four of the Wanderer music videos, “Horizon” features a cast of Marshall’s friends and loved ones, filmed both in New York City and L.A.

TIM BAKER - DANCE - 2019

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Baker is best known as the frontman of the JUNO Award-winning and Polaris nominated band Hey Rosetta!. In 2017, the band announced their hiatus and Baker began writing his first solo album. The result is Forever Overhead, 11 timeless songs that are as connected to classic 70s songwriters like Harry Nilsson and Cat Stevens as it is maritime folk. Forever Overhead, with its sweeping piano ballads, acoustic meditations, and dynamics arrangements, is a fresh addition to the recent crop of contemporary songwriters like Father John Misty, Tobias Jesso Jr, and Andy Shauf moving the craft forward while mining its past.

Best of 2018 - Anna McClellan - Yes and No

The road to Anna McClellan’s Yes and No was not just a metaphorical one. Born out of a long solo road trip McClellan took in 2015, the songs map her emotions of the two year period in which they were written like a highway is laid out before its driver. With decent savings, she set off due west, keyboard laid across the backseat, with little plan other than a call ahead to some friends and the idea that playing shows along the way would be cool. Though the trip lasted only four months, McClellan continued bouncing around from New York to Omaha and back, until finally settling in NYC in January of 2017. It is fitting that these songs were conceived in a period of restlessness.

McClellan’s singular voice mixes earnest intensity with nonchalant melancholy that puts the listener in a distant place, far away from other humans, as most of the subject matter deals with loneliness and internal emotional navigation. Often though, the songs stray outward and upward, pondering the confused nature of people, elaborating on the one thing we all cling to: the knowledge that no one is excluded from feeling weird sometimes.

“Onychophagy is the scientific term for nail-biting, a sub group of OCD, and I considered using it as the song title. And then I was like, I’m no scientist, I make songs. Nail-biting Song. It’s just a song about stress, and the internal rabbit hole one goes down, sitting at a table trapped in thought. All the time wasted thinking about what to do.”

Maximilien - L'aurore - 2018

In the wake of his debut album release, Maximilien adds the finishing touch to the electronic temple he started building with Please Stay last September. The French producer unveils L'aurore, his final single in a stunning live sessions format.

Through the eye of director Gilles Pensart, L'aurore accurately illustrates what artists feel while writing alone with their instruments, then slowly drift off into hearing a fully completed song in their mind's ear, only to be back in their room at end.

Greg Laswell - Will Not Resign - 2018

such beautiful despair…

There is a universality to Next Time and at no point does Laswell seem narcissistic or self-centered. Rather, the themes of redemption, frustration with progress, or the clarity of introspection are conspicuous in their commonality.