Dancing with the Beast Gretchen Peters SKU: SCARLLP11 Barcode: 659696476219 17.00 £17.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Scarlet Letter Records Released Date: 25th May 2018 Buying Format: 1LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Dancing with the Beast, the new album from Gretchen Peters, puts female characters at the fore, from teenage girls to old women. And intentionally so. With the 2017 Women’s March and the #MeToo Movement as bookends to her writing time, Peters knew that a feminist perspective would be the critical core of the record. She admits, “You can trace the feminist DNA in my songwriting back to ‘Independence Day’ and probably before. The thing that 2017 did is just put it front and centre.” Though Peters doesn’t consider herself a political writer, she is politically minded and, therefore, knew she had to address the 2016 election and all that has happened since… but in her own way. There’s a bittersweet beauty to the passing of time — the changes it brings are just as often heartbreaking as they are heartwarming. The inevitable tension that arises from that sway is Gretchen Peters’ most trusted muse. With melody supporting that melancholy, the songs on the new album combine to lift the effort over the high artistic bar set by her last outing, 2015’s award-winning Blackbirds. Whether a single sentence or a simple setting, once planted, even the tiniest seed can grow into a vision unto itself. Strung together and populated with strong and broken female heroines, those vignettes make up Dancing with the Beast and, indeed, Peters’ entire discography. Beauty tempered by dread, sorrow buoyed by hope, these are the ever-present tugs of war that make life worth living and songs worth writing. And they are the over-riding themes that make Gretchen Peters one of her generation’s most compelling singer/songwriters. “Ben Glover, Jason Isbell, Suzy Bogguss and others help out along the way, but this is all Peters’s show as she shines a light under some very dark rocks.” – Q magazine (4 Stars) Artist Gretchen Peters Genre Americana / Country Label Scarlet Letter Records Buying Options 1LP Format 1LP Condition New Country United Kingdom Track Listings Arguing With Ghosts Wichita The Boy From Rye Disappearing Act Lowlands The Show Dancing With The Beast Truckstop Angel Say Grace Lay Low Love That Makes A Cup of Tea Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Gretchen Peters and more from Americana / Country View Product Quick View Gretchen Peters The Night You Wrote That Song: The Songs of Mickey Newbury Americana / Country | Scarlet Letter Records | 1LP Released 19th June 2020 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Gretchen Peters The Night You Wrote That Song: The Songs 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