Ruston Kelly is still growing
, the forthcoming album from Ruston Kelly, due Aug. 28 on Rounder Records. Reminders to have grace, to be forgiving to yourself and others, and to stay sober when your brain is screaming for reprieve. Profound reminders that life itself can be beautiful, even when the walls around us are caving in.
“I felt like something was unraveling, or something was changing and it was really painful,” Kelly says. “I felt like I was losing and gaining at the same time, and letting a sense of who I had been slip away. A red cloud was hanging over me.” The struggle to stay sober and figure out who he was if he did was stifling and consuming; nothing seemed to help, except writing.
Kelly went on to record the album with producer and longtime creative partner Jarrad K at Dreamland Recording Studios, a former church in upstate New York. The setting lent itself perfectly to the album’s themes of finding faith in whatever way makes sense. For Kelly, that’s always been in angels: both the mythological and earthbound people who grab a hand when you’re falling or quietly show the safe way home.
It was also the first time Kelly recorded sober. “It was a challenge,” he says, “and I was scared, but at the same time, I was fearless.”Kelly had been long working to reshape his view on the role that intoxication plays in creativity: that sobriety is the enemy of art. “That’s a paradigm in the industry that needs to be broken immediately,” he says. These days, he worries particularly about those struggling to stay clean in isolation, waiting out the pandemic.
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