# ALICIA BLUE Shares Video For Dreamy Indie-Folk Anthem “Dog Days In LA”, Announces ‘Inner Child Work’ EP Out July

- Link: https://www.nyrdcast.com/alicia-blue-shares-video-for-dreamy-indie-folk-anthem-dog-days-in-la-announces-inner-child-work-ep-out-july/
- Published: 2022-05-17T11:54:23-05:00
- Author: Eugene Tierney

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“…listening to her songs feels like being invited into her intimate diary, a world
full of dreams and secrets.”  – **Atwood Magazine –  **_**2021 Artists to Watch**_

“Blessed with a rich, resonant voice, Alicia Blue invests every phrase of her songs
with gutsy attitude.” – **Music Connection**

” … mystical and chill-inducing…. Raconteur and chanteuse of the people, **Alicia
Blue** invents her own line of folk with every release.” – **Grimy Goods**

**ALICIA BLUE**
**Takes Us For A Ride with Her Dreamy Indie-Folk Anthem “**[**Dog Days in LA**](https://reybee.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984&id=e6f6a29891&e=615f2b8493)**“**

**New EP, **_**Inner Child Work **_**
Out July 15 _via_Magnetic Moon 

**Explores Life Directions, Self-Awareness, and New Beginnings**

**MAY 13, 2022 (Nashville, TN)** – “‘[**Dog Days in LA**](https://reybee.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984&id=b9ad2345c0&e=615f2b8493)”
is a bridge between old and new, between folk and rock, between what was, what is
and what’s to come,” says Nashville-based magnetic indie-folk singer-songwriter **
Alicia Blue** about the first single/video off her new** EP **_**Inner Child Work**_****
out on **July 15 **_via_ **Magnetic Moon**. “Dog Days in LA” is about her realization
of how much she _didn’t _have her life in California figured out. “Each song on 
_Inner Child Work_ is really just about the difficulty of navigating this life and
not having all the proper tools to live it in the most successful way,” Blue describes.“
And by successful, I mean the ‘healthiest.’ I like to think that getting this all
out helps me in some way.”

Alicia Blue - Dog Days In LA (Official Music Video)

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Watch this video on YouTube

**Alicia Blue “Dog Days in LA”**

Directed by **Tyler Dunning Evans**, the video for “Dog Days of LA” was filmed in
and around the outskirts of Los Angeles and Joshua Tree. The video follows Blue 
driving in a convertible with the top down, air washing over her, creating a pleasurable
sensory overload adorned with a unique blend of LA skylines and picturesque cityscapes.

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**“Dog Days in LA” Single Artwork**
Photo credit: **Natalia Fernandez**

Blessed with a gift for words shaped by her first passion – poetry, and a blue-sky
voice to sing them, Blue says though she started out as a folk singer, she just 
couldn’t seem to color within those sometimes rigid genre lines for her new EP. “
Intense indie rock themes started speaking to me, holding my lyrics, framing every
word I was trying to say. Then, as I found myself gaining clarity on what this record
was about, I decided to leave LA and move to Nashville.” 

That move meant leaving the only home she had ever known, a city she both loved 
and felt lost/distorted in, but a trek out to Nashville to record music gave Blue
perspective on her life in Los Angeles. “The poet in me sees the lost souls everywhere
in LA … at open mics, bars, parties, shows and more. I even saw it in myself. I 
hit a point where I started to understand myself, realizing I hadn’t known WTF I
was doing for so long, around a bunch of other people who didn’t know WTF they were
doing either. Eventually, you just have to let yourself say goodbye… not with any
intention of superiority, but with a sense of finding something new.” She says “
Dog Days In LA” is that bridge between “finding yourself and admitting that you 
were lost in the first place.”

Once in Nashville, she then found a perfect creative foil in the Nashville-based
songwriter and producer **Lincoln Parish**, originally of the band **Cage the Elephant**.
Parish helped to provide a solid musical foundation for her songs—including some
new guitar progressions, textures, and riffs—so she could focus on doing her best,
most creative writing work to date. _Inner Child Work_ finds her grappling with 
some long-overdue emotional reckonings. “I didn’t grow up with any faith or trust
in what you might call self-help or anything like that,” she says. “I got my first
therapist a few years ago and realized there were things holding me back from doing
what I wanted with my life. Things like anxiety, depression—I just had no language
to describe them previously, so there was no way to deal with their existence.”

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**Alicia Blue**
Photo credit: **Tammie Valer**

There are moments on _Inner Child Work_ that focus on more immediate, pressing matters.“**
Saline Waters**” is about facing mortality and is like a “darker and more aggressive
take on Joni Mitchell’s’ ‘Circle Game,'” Blue says, while the witty indie rock “**
DTMTS (Don’t Tell Me To Smile)**” states in no uncertain terms the narrator’s frustration
with being told she’d look prettier and/or happier if she’d just smile. 

Even when noting her admiration for authors like Jack Kerouac and Joan Didion, as
well as songwriter/poets like Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen, it’s still
difficult to pin down her exact musical influences on Alicia Blue’s _Inner Child
Work_—and that’s exactly how the California singer-songwriter likes it. Although
her folk roots are never far from the surface, the EP/album encompasses ’90s alternative
rock (“**Dirty Hippie**“), and even Tori Amos-esque introspection (“**Fine**“).

_Inner Child Work_ is indeed just the beginning for Alicia Blue, as it’s an EP that
finds her examining who she was and setting her sights on where she wants to be.“
This EP 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,” Blue 
says. “My artistry and the album have this wildness to them. But I can also feel
this softening happening. _Inner Child Work_ is caught right at the point of in-
between, which I would call healing.”

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_**Inner Child Work**_

**Tracklist**
1.“[Dog Days in LA](https://reybee.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984&id=d9d2229a02&e=615f2b8493)“
2. “Saline Waters”3. “DTMTS (Don’t Tell Me to Smile)”4. “Fine”5. “Dirty Hippie”

Releasing her first EP in 2019, fate fell immediately for her with Starbucks asking
for her song “Magma” to be featured in stores worldwide _via_ their Starbucks Acoustic
playlist on Spotify. Garnering immediate attention as a songwriter and singer, Alicia
quickly became a pivotal figure on the LA songwriting circuit. She’s been featured
in publications including **Billboard** and **Atwood Magazine**, as well as LA’s
legendary **KCRW**. Alicia Blue’s first full-length album _**Bravebird**_ was released
April 2020 in the middle of a global pandemic, securing spots on Spotify’s influential
_Fresh Finds Pop_ and _Fresh Finds Rock_ playlists and garnering a whole new round
of buzz and attention. In January 2021, she was featured at the top of **Atwood 
Magazine**’s “2021 Artists to Watch.” 

With new music in hand, Alicia Blue is poised for a breakout this year. 

“[**Dog Days of LA**](https://reybee.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984&id=b321142f78&e=615f2b8493)”
is now available _via_ **Magnetic Moon **and can be purchased/streamed here. **_Inner
Child Work_**_ _will be released on **July 15, 202**2 _via_ **Magnetic Moon**. 

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