Orenda Fink shares new single "You Can Be Loved" with Entertainment Weekly

“Blue Dream floats in a state of meditative weightlessness suspended by plentiful pop hooks. Fans of Kate Bush should be pleased by the results.” – Entertainment Weekly

“Orenda Fink embraces spirituality and mysticism along with

more challenging songwriting.” – Pitchfork

“Fink’s voice is lush, full, seductive, vulnerable, mature, and innocent at various

times, and on rare occasions, all of those qualities at once.” – Pop Matters

“Lovely and visceral all at once.” – Paste

Listen: “You Can Be Loved” via Entertainment Weekly or SoundCloud

Orenda Fink will release her new album, Blue Dream on August 19 via Saddle Creek.Entertainment Weekly has premiered “You Can Be Loved” from the album and the song is also available to post and share via SoundCloud. Entertainment Weekly said, “‘You Can Be Loved,” with its chiming guitar figures and ethereal multitracked vocals, puts all of Blue Dream’s best qualities in one place.” The “You Can Be Loved” single is available to purchase now at iTunes.The single also features a demo version of “You Can Be Loved” as well as a cover of Bruce Springsteen’s “Nebraska.” Last month, Orenda shared the album’s lead track, “Ace Of Cups” with Paste Magazine and it’s also available for streaming and embed at SoundCloud. Paste said, “Orenda Fink has taken things in a more introspective direction with her latest songwriting, using her solo work to closely analyze the her feelings on death and fate. Fink’s forthcoming album Blue Dream builds upon the sadness she felt at the death of her dog of 16 years, but pushes the reflection deeper by pondering spirituality and the way humanity is interconnected.” Blue Dream can be pre-ordered now on CD and LP in the Saddle Creek online store. Fans that order the deluxe LP (Blue and Coke Bottle vinyl) will also receive a bonus Blue Dream Dream Journalhandmade and inscribed by Orenda Fink. The blank journals, limited to 100, are hand screen printed originals made from vintage re-purposed books.

Throughout her time with Azure Ray and over the course of her solo career, Orenda Fink has never shied from exploring the darker edges of spirituality and the human condition. On her debut solo album Invisible Ones, Orenda explored traditional Haitian ritual and mysticism. She then followed that up with an examination of the Southern Gothic subconscious on Ask the Night. Needless to say, death has been visible in much of her music. On her latest album, Blue Dream, she looks deeply at the subject, reflecting upon a year-long meditation on death that started with a dog named Wilson and the words of Laurie Anderson.

“Just look at yesterday, and what you were doing, and how important it was, and how nonexistent

it is now! How dreamlike it is! Same thing with tomorrow. So where are we living? Tibetans

have unbelievably fascinating answers to that. This is what I’m studying because

my dog died.” – Laurie Anderson

Orenda was sent this quote by her friend Nina Barnes after Wilson, Orenda’s dog of 16 years, died. That year she found herself on a deeply personal search for the meaning of death. Pieces of answers, coded in riddle, came to her in dreams. Her dreams began to tell a story – about life and death and the afterlife, reality, and the fine line between the conscious and subconscious world.

She then spent the next year understanding the experience and filtering it through the musical inspirations of Smog, Violetta Parra, and Kate Bush to craft Blue Dream. The album truly came together at ARC in Omaha, NE with the help of producers Ben Brodin and Todd Fink (The Faint), along with drummer Bill Rieflin (Ministry, Swans, R.E.M., King Crimson).

Lead single “Ace of Cups” starts the album off by using the Tarot symbol of attunement and spirituality to explore the interconnectedness with the world and humanity that even death cannot undo. The haunting “Holy Holy” examines them directly with lines “We come into this world all alone/and we leave with not much more” and “I lay in bed/collect all my dreams/then I pay/someone to read them to me/the simple ones are just as they seem/but open your eyes/and they say so much more.” Whereas “All Hearts Will Beat Again” displays ideas Orenda came to understand upon reflection in lines “It’s a sign in the eyes/something in your smile/it’s a nod and a wave from the darkness/but our hearts will beat again/and the love we gave will come back/but i don’t know where or when.”

Writing the album allowed Orenda to contemplate the experiences that precipitated it and explore new perspectives gained over the past year. This process left her with the belief that we can only be truly healed if we find our “interior God.” How do you find your interior God? There are many ways, but she believes one of them is through dreams. Dreams being the closest way to have a direct experience with the all-knowing past, present, and future.