Denitia – Sunset Drive
Denitia has a new album, Sunset Drive. Sometimes you see yourself and your own life in a song, and sometimes in that experience you realize that we all feel similarly, that we all experience the same emotions, heartbreaks and struggles up and down at different times. That’s what Denitia tells us she is working toward every time with her songwriting, and it shows through clearly here in these songs.
“Good Life” is a pedal steel winding around a person haunted by a longing, even though they’ve “got a good life, no use in imagining if you had ever changed.” Sometimes a perfect life from the outside isn’t so perfect inside. Sound familiar? “Sunset Drive” is an upbeat song, with gently positivity even in the face of a breakup: “I’m underwater, trying to find the surface with you… everything is beautiful even when it falls apart.”
“Back to You” describes the way every season takes her right back to the one she can’t forget. “Gettin’ Over” takes up more classic country arrangement in a fast paced number “I’m getting over getting out from under / Gotta find a way to the top/ When you think you’re on a roll / This life will do a number
/ Wonder why it never stops.” There are so many stumbling blocks on the road to success.”
Later in the album, Denitia slows things down to flex her vulnerability in a mournful ballad, “Wild Light.” This is an unambiguous love song: “Even if I were to get lost / I’d find my way Right back Into your heart / Oh, right back to you / And I hope and pray that / It never ever takes too long.”
With a high vocal tone that intrinsically expresses a lot of frailty and is pretty to listen to, Denitia is a true songbird.
Denitia takes Americana and country vibes all the way to the brink of catchy popular music, and she just might take off big time with this album. The songwriting hits her goal of creating universally relatable numbers right on target. Find the music here: https://deniti.komi.io/
Musicians on the album are Denitia on vocals; and guitar, pedal steel, drums and more instruments by Brad Allen Williams.
The album was produced and mixed by Brad Allen Williams except “Don’t Let Me Go” and “Holding on to You,” which were co-produced by Denitia and Brad Allen Williams. The album was recorded at The Bunker Studio (Brooklyn, NY) and Sounds Different (Los Angeles, CA), and mastered by Alex DeTurk at The Bunker Studio (Brooklyn, NY).