Photo credit: Rachel Bennett
New York City-based singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer allie announces her immersive, evocative self-produced second studio album Every Dog due out September 27 and available for pre-order now. Alongside the announcement, the artist shares of the project–the title trackout now and its matching video. The forthcoming meditative LP is a vulnerable exploration of queer love and one’s self, carefully crafted by the artist who wrote, produced and mixed it herself.

“‘Every Dog’ highlights different growths I’ve experienced as a songwriter, in the efficacy of both more abstract-leaning and literal-leaning types of storytelling. I felt freer to write about my own experiences and wherever else my imagination took me, worrying less about fitting in with other artist peers, and just wanting to make something that felt fair and real and true to my life in this vast and crazy world.”
“‘Every Dog’” emerged as a bit of a montage-based glimpse into how moving to New York City has changed the way I’m able to interact with my surrounding environment. Having lived most of my life in suburban-type sprawls of Michigan and Tennessee, I’m not sure anything could have prepared me for the vibrancy or constancy of NYC.”

“I understand “Every Dog” to be a somewhat abstract representation of my own journey and the journeys of my loved ones, especially artist friends, to find solace in such a trying, chaotic environment here in NYC. Looking back, I think the song “’Every Dog’” was a way for me to honor both the pain of necessary separation from beloved people who had once been very close to me, and also the sense of peace and acceptance I felt in knowing such decisions were made for the right reasons–out of love for the other and myself.”

“I wanted to create something that felt flickering–the oscillating guitar can resemble the constantly churning transportation flowing through NYC–and that also evolved to deliver the listener somewhere different than expected, which was meant to represent big, structural change in a relationship.”