# ALICIA BLUE Debuts Daring New EP ‘Inner Child Work Pt. 2’ Out Now!

- Link: https://www.nyrdcast.com/alicia-blue-debuts-daring-new-ep-inner-child-work-pt-2-out-now/
- Published: 2023-03-20T13:00:00-05:00
- Author: Eugene Tierney

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_“Alicia Blue captures the freeing euphoria of therapy on _Inner Child Work Part
2,_ thinking big to finish her Nashville debut (_Inner Child Work Part 1_). Through
insightful indie folk and a delicate pop sparkle, Blue examines coming of age in
a faraway city, with a little help from The Civil Wars’ John Paul White.”_ **-Nashville
Lifestyles**

_“Alicia’s music encourages each emotion to be felt, embraced, and used as a tool
to heal, much like her own narrative accomplishes through songwriting. With emotional
purging and vivid accounts that feel like a listener’s own therapy, Alicia’s sentiments
are echoed through the course of the EP, percolating until a final resolve.”   _**-
Music Existence**

_“For Blue, who released her debut ‘_Bravebird_‘ in 2020 and recently covered Jane’s
Addiction’s 1987 classic ‘[Janes Says](https://www.nyrdcast.com/2022/08/alicia-blue-brings-janes-addictions-iconic-jane-says-lyrics-to-the-foreground-for-a-heart-wrenching-interpretation/)”’—
and even got big praise from the band’s frontman Perry Farrell for her rendition—
her work has just begun. Kicking off from her very first singles, the heart-shattering
country crooners ‘Magma’ and ‘Incognito’ through deeper self-revelations and evaluations
on her 2022 EP, ‘_Inner Child Work, Pt. 1_‘, and recent singles ‘Young,’ ‘Best Hands’
and ‘I Want It Faster,’ this is Alicia Blue’s moment in time.”_ –** American Songwriter,’
16 Artists to Watch in 2023′**

_“…listening to her songs feels like being invited into her intimate diary, a world
full of dreams and secrets.”  _**– Atwood Magazine**

_“Her new gorgeously lush EP _Inner Child Work Part 1_ wields the punch of Lissie,
Sharon Etten and Angel Olsen with a sharper indie edge. She wades through dark indie
creeks with her song ‘Saline Waters,’ which bottles the melancholy of early Tears
for Fears with the sexy noir of Chris Isaak’s ‘Wicked Game.’ She gets really poppy
and melodic too on ‘DTMTS (Don’t Tell Me To Smile)’ which sticks like a pickaxe 
to the skull. Having cowriting partners in Lincoln Parish of Cage the Elephant and
John Paul White of Civil Wars doesn’t hurt either.”_ **– PopWrapped**

### **INDIE FOLK ARTIST**⏎ **ALICIA BLUE****EMBRACES THE CHILD WITHINON DARING NEW EP _INNER CHILD WORK_ _PT. 2_OUT NOW _via_ MAGNETIC MOON RECORDS

#### **Focus Track “Picasso Blue” Premieres with 󠀁[Atwood Magazine](https://reybee.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984&id=a56cf35d8a&e=615f2b8493)󠁿**

**MARCH 17, 2023 (Nashville, TN)** — Hard work yields results whether it’s with 
our hands or with our heads. Nashville’s **Alicia Blue** knows the trials of facing
her psychology firsthand, and she wrote about both the process and the outcome for
her _**Inner Child Work**_ EPs, **_Pt.2_** of which arrives today, **March 17**,
_via_ **Magnetic Moon Records**. Both sets are produced by former **Cage the Elephant**
guitarist **Lincoln Parish**. 

“I got my first therapist in 2019,” Alicia recently revealed to **Music Existence**.“
That person, they’re kind of like a teacher to me… The work we were doing was causing
me to hang out with these orphan parts of myself. We all have that, all humans have
it. We have all these parts and usually they’re young, because the developed parts
of us are the ones who can do whatever they want to do if they’re ready. But it’s
all of these young parts that sort of run amok inside of us.”

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**Alicia Blue “Picasso Blue”**

The new EP serves as a bookend for last year’s _**Inner Child Work PT.**_**_1_**,
a companion piece that continues a journey of personal growth and healing. But if_**
Pt. 1**_** **is rife with a sense of turmoil, featuring the defiant [“**Don’t Tell Me To Smile**“](https://reybee.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984&id=d0ab5c934a&e=615f2b8493)
and [“**Dog Days In L.A.**“](https://reybee.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984&id=cb23d2e17a&e=615f2b8493),
which frames the complexity of her relationship to the city she hails from with 
an unadorned, acoustic ballad, the five songs out today on _**Inner Child Work PT.
2**_ radiate with the taut strength of perseverance. 

Amid the contagious, frenetic energy of [“I Want it Faster”](https://reybee.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984&id=99bf5bf490&e=615f2b8493)
she confronts** **the warring sides of herself, battling against the quicksand of
old patterns. [“Young,”](https://reybee.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984&id=9418763078&e=615f2b8493)
which was co-written and played on by **John Paul White** of **The Civil Wars, **
serves as a** **pivotal moment in the song cycle that finds Alicia frustrated with
our cultural fantasy of remaining ‘forever young.’ For a woman struggling to heal
the toddler within, she lets us know in no uncertain terms: she’s ready to grow 
up and get on with the show. 

Elsewhere on **_Pt. 2_**, there’s a hard-won sense of resolve. As Alicia likes to
tell us, “the dust settles,”  particularly on **“Believer”** and the stunning “**
Picasso Blue,**” a philosophical anthem that ties the whole project together, which
premiered exclusively via **[Atwood Magazine](https://reybee.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984&id=75fa03b00b&e=615f2b8493)**
yesterday. 

![Alicia Blue](https://i0.wp.com/mcusercontent.com/f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984/images/
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**ALICIA BLUE**
Photo Credit:_** **_**Tammie Valer**

“Picasso Blue” traverses the lines between the mediums of visual and musical art
to create a metaphor about the Spanish painter’s ‘Blue Period,’ which depicts cheerless
images of subjects that emulate profound depression. 

“I’d been living with a filter that felt eerily as though I was part of that, part
of what Picasso was saying during this period,” Alicia explains. “A little too cool,
with sadness throughout, and a frustration that I couldn’t see it another way. ‘
Picasso Blue’ is a song about changing that pattern, or at least admitting that 
it needed to happen.”    

Written during her relocation to Nashville as a Los Angeles native, the songs that
comprise _Inner Child Work_ represent an upheaval, leaning into a deep conversation
about mental health. But just as much as writing them helped Alicia process her 
own struggles, they’re meant to leave breadcrumbs for listeners to find. 

“These _Inner Child Work_ EPs and my existence as an artist come from a need to 
connect and develop relationships—yet simultaneously I’ve always felt like this 
lone candle in a dark room,” Alicia expresses, describing the self-reflection she
employed in writing the songs.

For both EPs, the former Los Angeles native found herself working with aforementioned
Nashville-based songwriter and producer **Lincoln Parish**, who helped to provide
a solid musical foundation for the new songs, allowing her to focus on conjuring
her most creative songwriting to date. Recording in Nashville also gave Alicia a
perspective on her life in Los Angeles; having been born and raised in Southern 
California, and never having left the city, not even for college.  

![Alicia Blue album cover](https://i0.wp.com/mcusercontent.com/f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984/
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_**Inner Child Work Part 2**_

Releasing her debut EP in 2019, fate fell immediately for her with worldwide in-
store play at Starbucks and Spotify playlisting, which has remained ongoing. Features
in **Billboard**, **Atwood Magazine** and LA’s legendary **KCRW **soon followed.
In January 2023, she was featured in [**American Songwriter’s “16 Artists to Watch in 2023”**](https://reybee.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984&id=b81f7adda8&e=615f2b8493)
and was interviewed for a segment on **NPR**‘s _Dante’s Old South_ scheduled to 
run this month. 

[[_**Inner Child Work Part 2**_

**Tracklist**
1.“[Best Hands](https://www.nyrdcast.com/2022/10/alicia-blue-looks-within-to-acknowledge-that-she-herself-is-in-the-best-hands-with-her-own-presence/)“
2. “[Picasso Blue](https://reybee.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984&id=ee86454f57&e=615f2b8493)“
3. “[Young (feat. John Paul White)](https://www.nyrdcast.com/2022/09/alicia-blue-evolves-unconventionally-on-self-awakening-track-young-feat-john-paul-white/)”
4. [“I Want It Faster”](https://www.nyrdcast.com/2022/12/rising-folk-pop-songstress-alicia-blue-declares-i-want-it-faster-in-punchy-new-anthem-self-directed-iphone-video-clip-out-now/)
5. “[Believer](https://reybee.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984&id=62b936e4cb&e=615f2b8493)“

**“Picasso Blue”** is now out _via_ **Magnetic Moon **and can be streamed [here](https://reybee.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984&id=edc73ee1f9&e=615f2b8493).
The full EP _**[Inner Child Work Part 2](https://reybee.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984&id=fd5e7ee524&e=615f2b8493)**
_is also out now, _via_ **Magnetic Moon**.  

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