Premiere: Remi Goode Shares New Single “Don’t Drive Me Residence”
Debut LP Issues I’ve Stated Earlier than is Out September twenty sixth
Sep 25, 2025
Images by Ellen Pelletier
Later this week, Nashville-based indie folks singer/songwriter Remi Goode is about to share her debut LP, Issues I’ve Stated Earlier than, arriving on September twenty sixth. Goode is a classically skilled nylon string guitaristーa expertise that shines by means of within the slight and quiet moments in her songsーbut she additionally brings a way of scale and wide-eyed filmic marvel to the sometimes intimate world of people. Alongside her fellow guitarist, bandmate, and primary collaborator, Gabe Lehrer, Goode has spent the previous few years steadily crafting the songs on Issues I Stated Earlier than, shaping a sound that flits between golden-hued Americana, stirring chamber folks, and classic pop sensibilities.
As Goode describes, the file itself is one which explores contradictions and uncertainty. “As somebody who tends to assume in black-and-white, I discover myself writing about all the grey areas in my life—looking for readability within the complicated dynamics and misunderstandings that I have to kind out,” she says. “Issues I’ve Stated Earlier than is about attending to the reality of the place I stand in relation to myself and others. I wrote these songs over a few years whereas I used to be nonetheless determining tips on how to really feel like an actual songwriter, and studying that I beloved to write down about this sort of truth-seeking actually helped with that. With this album, I needed to indicate that we will discover peace in letting go and leaving some issues unreconciled.”
Goode has already launched “Would possibly Not Be True,” “For the File,” “Brief Circuit,” and “Waltz, No.1” as singles this 12 months, and at this time she’s again with an early pay attention to a different new observe, “Don’t Drive Me Residence,” premiering with Underneath the Radar.
“Don’t Drive Me Residence” performs with each side of Goode’s sound, straddling the road between tender folks meditation and effortlessly clean full-band studio manufacturing. The outcomes really feel each classical and up to date. Goode’s finger-picked guitar and jazz-flecked vocal strains dance amidst swells of strings, honeyed vocal harmonies, and blissed-out percussion, with Goode often ceding the highlight for a second of lithe full band grooves or a winding and beautiful guitar solo. These contrasting stylistic threads settle within the observe’s ultimate moments, changed by a glassy and serene coda. Goode’s vocals sigh and sprawl because the strings and guitar steadily unravel, descending right into a dreamy fantasia.
Goode explains, “Proper earlier than I took the leap to be with the particular person I used to be meant to be with, I did lots of hand-wringing and second-guessing. I wrote ‘Don’t Drive Me Residence’ about leaving love on the desk, and the way we ended our relationship earlier than it even started. I needed the outro to really feel floaty and timeless to symbolize the remorse I felt when my particular person was driving me dwelling on the finish of the evening, and I didn’t need to be alone with the choice we’d made.”
Take a look at the music beneath. Issues I’ve Stated Earlier than is out all over the place on September twenty sixth.
