Premiere: Alexa Rose Shares New Single “Arms”
New LP Environment is Out October thirty first through First Metropolis Artists
Sep 02, 2025
Pictures by Zach Strum
Indie Americana singer/songwriter Alexa Rose is returning later this 12 months together with her third full-length effort, Environment. The album is about to reach 4 years after her 2021 sophomore album, Headwaters, and occupies a equally considerate, poignant, and piercing area, bringing her tender Appalachian folks to life in startling element by means of Rose’s open-hearted performances and plaintive storytelling.
Rose first recorded the album on the North Carolina studio Betty’s, joined by a coterie of musicians together with Mat Davidson (Twain, Large Thief), Dom Billet (Dr. Canine, The Climate Station), Jeff Ratner (Langhorne Slim), Hilary James (Matt Pond PA, Esmé Patterson), Helena Rose (Holler Choir), and Josh Oliver (Watchhouse, Tyler Childers). Following the periods, Hurricane Helene devastated North Carolina, irrevocably altering Rose’s relationship to her new nascent album. Afterwards, Rose spent the winter re-recording elements of the album to strip them again and seize the songs at their most spare.
“I associated to the music another way,” Rose explains. “I had simply moved into a brand new place after dropping entry to my home, and felt just a little tossed round the way in which everybody did. The expertise deepened my love for my residence and my perception within the resilience of the land and communities in Appalachia.” She continues, “Stripping the songs down felt more true: nothing to cover behind anymore, however believing the roots are sturdy sufficient to carry.”
Final month, Rose shared her newest single, “The place the Magic Lives,” and right now she’s again with one other new observe, “Arms,” premiering with Beneath the Radar.
“Arms” unfurls with a delicate radiance, recalling each the reedy and heat tone of Adrienne Lenker’s vocals and the easygoing grooves of singer/songwriters like S.G. Goodman. The band buoys Rose’s heat vocal tones with feather-light guitar strains and the occasional swells of strings, however Rose simply occupies middle stage with a bunch of amber-hued melodies and wistful lyricism. She unpacks the imagery of mass demise and wanton violence that haunts our day by day lives, utilizing it to flee momentarily right into a brighter fantasy: “He goes for the gun, however no one dies/ The bullets all flip into butterflies / And so they received residence to inform their moms / No one runs, no one hides, no one makes this about taking sides / And we’ll use arms to carry one another.”
Rose says of the observe, “There’s this recurring narrative in lots of youngsters’s films the place love can convey somebody again, usually by means of the mourner’s tears falling onto the individual. I met a songwriter as soon as who mentioned that writing a tune might make you’re feeling such as you’ve had some type of say or energy in a state of affairs that’s completely out of your management.
Once I wrote ‘Arms,’ I used to be fascinated about how this epidemic of gun violence in America disproportionately impacts youngsters, who’re those who’ve essentially the most untarnished skill to imagine in magic. I believe I used to be attempting to think about a fantastical, comfortable ending to the worst factor I can think about, however not in a approach that’s actual or sensible, extra so in a approach {that a} youngster may think it.”
Take a look at the tune and video under. Environment is out in all places on October thirty first through First Metropolis Artists.