A cinematic ballad steeped in sun-soaked recollections, Brie Stoner’s newest single is a nostalgic tribute to Topanga Canyon’s magnificence, lore, and misplaced love.
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Tright here’s one thing mystical, one thing otherworldly and nostalgic about driving by means of Topanga Canyon — the way in which the solar filters by means of the sycamores, the winding roads buzzing with echoes of the previous.
Each twist and switch is one other glimpse at pure marvel, and off each filth path are tales to be informed and gems ready to be found. Topanga Canyon will perpetually be a sacred, particular place for folks of all walks of life, and this holds very true for Brie Stoner, who discovered a house away from residence within the mountainous areas north of LA – and now pays homage to that land in her newest single. The singer/songwriter captures the West Coast’s magnificence and magic in “Topanga,” a cinematic ballad filled with sun-soaked recollections, wistful longing, and heartfelt reverie.
I used to be dressed like a film star
within the boulevard of damaged desires
you requested me for an autograph
’trigger I’m in such a scene
You stated I used to be the ambiance
you wished to breathe
However I burn like fireplace
and I had a very good feeling that I
wasn’t gonna be such a
good lady for you child
No, I used to be by no means gonna be your one, child
No, I used to be at all times gonna be a fling
No, I used to be by no means gonna be your one,
my darling, I used to be simply gonna be your mistake
Atwood Journal is proud to be premiering “Topanga,” Brie Stoner’s first single of the yr following the releases of her debut album Me Veo final spring and the next Like a Man EP within the fall. Born in Madrid and at present based mostly in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Stoner is an completed multilingual singer/songwriter, visible artist, and creator, with a musical aesthetic not too dissimilar from musicians like Lana Del Rey or Mitski.
Atwood Journal had the distinction of premiering her debut album final yr, praising it as “a dreamy, hazy, multi-dimensional assortment [that] captures an artist coming into themselves, discovering their voice, and harnessing their inside mild after languishing within the darkness for much too lengthy. It’s a mellifluous, melancholic exhale: 13 tender, sweetly seductive songs discover Stoner plunging into the depths of her humanity, meditating on identification, releasing herself from labels, and celebrating ‘the myriad, mystical threads that make up the entire material of the human spirit.’”
Rooted in Stoner’s deep private connection to the realm, “Topanga” ebbs and flows with grace at the same time as she aches inside, weaving bits and items of her previous — canyon drives, fleeting romances, and the sensation of lastly belonging — right into a lush, expansive soundscape. It’s each a tribute and a time capsule; a love letter to a spot that formed her, and a mirrored image on how sure landscapes change into stitched into our very souls.
“‘Topanga’ is my old flame letter to LA, and I suppose it actually kicked off the start of my songwriting on this album,” Stoner tells Atwood Journal. “After I moved to Los Angeles in my twenties, it was my drive by means of Topanga Canyon that actually made me really feel like I used to be residence. I suppose it’s as a result of the topography jogged my memory a lot of Spain, the place I grew up. But in addition, as a result of you’ll be able to really feel the rock and roll historical past and lore within the canyon.”
“Within the music, I gathered bits and items of recollections I had throughout that point… of lovers, of drives within the canyon, of recollections that shimmer in a magical means and can perpetually stay on in my coronary heart. I wished to seize the nostalgic cinematic means Topanga Canyon makes me really feel, and I hope listeners can really feel that.”
Stoner’s emotive voice has lengthy been a lightning rod of seductive ardour and uncooked, unfiltered emotion, and it’s within the music’s second refrain and subsequent breakdown that she hits considered one of her highest, if not poignantly bittersweet, highs.
No, I used to be by no means gonna be your one, child
No, I used to be at all times gonna be a fling
No, I used to be by no means gonna be your one,
my darling, I used to be simply gonna be your mistake
I bear in mind 101 the canyon
Cruising on the freeway out to Topanga
Ingesting on the again porches, an emotion
One another like waves on the ocean
In releasing “Topanga,” Brie Stoner can also be encouraging listeners to go to the non-profit Topanga REACH, a community-driven group offering emergency aid, catastrophe restoration, and long-term resilience assist for the residents of Topanga, California, whose houses had been ravaged by wildfires earlier this yr. Be taught extra at bit.ly/m/helptopanga.
And for these in want of an escape, let “Topanga” whisk you away to a sun-kissed boulevard winding by means of a lush, rugged, and mythic canyon — a nook of the universe steeped in lore and music, the place the sunshine dances by means of the bushes, the air hums with historical past, and each curve within the highway looks like a reminiscence ready to unfold. Stream Brie Stoner’s newest single completely on Atwood Journal!
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