If youve opened TikTok recently, youre likely already familiar with alt-rock star Towa Bird.
I think seeing her gave me a little hope.
He taught me how, most importantly, tofeelmusic and not just play it.
Photo: Thong Luc
It was during this restless, searching period that she began to hone her sound.
For me, songs are always like a puzzle of lived experience.
You have that story in your bones and know exactly what that feeling was.
Photo: Thong Luc
Then, its just about how I can articulate that efficiently and make it rhyme.
At its core,American Herois about being completely honest about queer love and all its essence.
Theres a lot of yearning and vulnerability and dealing with difficult emotions, she continues.
After six months of tinkering, Bird spent the next year solidifying her cheekily titled debut.
For a moment last fall, she thought that she had finished itonly to discover otherwise while touring.
Being on the road turned into something like field research.
Those reactions are really honest, she muses.
That informed the rest of the album.
When I came home, I was like,Okay, never mind.
Im actually not done.So I added three more songs.
The musician herself, however, remains humble and starry-eyed ahead of her first album launch.
Its a really beautiful mix of incredible, not-able-to-sleep-anxiety with genuine excitement, she says.
So theres a lot of me there.
American Herois out on June 28.
