Singer-Songwriter Alison Sudol Shares New Single “Meteor Shower” From Forthcoming Album ‘Still Come The Night’

Known for her role as Queenie Goldstein in Fantastic Beasts, American singer-songwriter and actress Alison Sudol has continued to flex her multi-hyphenate skills with her latest single “Meteor Shower” from her forthcoming album Still Come The Night, due September 23rd via Kartel Music Group.

The new album is a deeply personal one, highlighting the stages as she progressed through a turbulent and challenging point in her life. When Alison began writing Still Comes the Night, she knew that she wanted to make an album about the different stages of what she was going through. The upcoming album spans the emotions of her journey, from the intensity and thrill of love, to the trepidatious excitement and unknowns of pregnancy, and everything surrounding grief and loss. For Alison the life changing event was her pregnancy ending, which resulted also in a dramatic shift in herself; the instant loss of a life path that she had only moments ago been on.

As for the new single, “Meteor Shower” recounts the morning after the loss. Written “the morning after the worst night – says Alison, “we were empty, exhausted, numb, yet the early morning light was so soft, the hills blue with frost…impossibly still, so quiet. Even in the depths of grief, I was struck by the beauty of where we were”.

The shocking stillness comes through her patient vocal style, recounting her inner monologue with a sombre and haunting glossiness.

Alison thinks of ‘Still Come The Night’ as an album for everyone to listen to and connect with, one that’s open and giving in its emotions; she thought about the vast weight of grief that people have carried over these past two years: isolation, fear, sadness, illness, loss of time, and the ensuing rush to resume normal life, without enough opportunity for processing it all. “Meteor Shower” is the album’s poetic finale, book ending the equally hypnotic opener, “Bone Tired”.

a“It felt like an ending piece, but it also felt like the beginning of something else. Weirdly, even in the moment it didn’t just feel like an ending – there felt like a lot of openness beyond it, the sense of dawn and space and breathing. ‘Now we are here / And now it is now’ is the ending of the record, like ‘this is where we go from’,” explains Alison.

Listen below, and stay tuned for Still Come The Night on September 23rd.

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