Danielle Durack

Recent highlights:
+ Supporting Pedro the Lion west coast tour this July
+ New album "Escape Artist" charted on NCAA, currently spinning on tastemaker stations like KEXP, WLUW, WNXP, WKDU, KUOM, CJAM, WRUR, WUNH, KDNK, WQFS, WMSE, WMUA, WRSU, WRUW, WUSC, KCSB, KZSC, SiriusXM, and WRLT.
+ Recently featured on Spotify playlists Fresh Finds and Fresh Finds Folk
+ New album "Escape Artist" earned praise from a number of critics --> danielledurack.com/press

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Bio:
The Arizona-born, Nashville-based Danielle Durack’s music combines the pop sensibilities of childhood favorites like Sara Barellies with a modern wit that slots her right next to contemporaries like Boygenius and Hop Along. Beginning with debut album Bashful, Durack’s developed her own sound into something mature and emotionally complex, without skimping on the hooks and humor. Her third album, Escape Artist, arrived February 16th.

On her third full-length effort, Danielle Durack arrives on the other side of the crushing heartbreak that defined her acclaimed 2021 LP, No Place. “Sleeping in my ex’s shirt / I honestly don’t think too much about him no more,” she sings breezily on “Shirt Song” as Escape Artist opens over playful, palm-muted guitars. “...And life goes on.” The remarkable emotional depth and diaristic quality of No Place remain, but here Durack broadens the scope of her songwriting, showcasing the growth and maturity that come from time passed and experiences lived. “While many of the songs touch on escapism, ultimately the making of this album has been my own escape, my own distraction from reality, to process and reflect on a very turbulent time in my life.”

The songs here serve as a means to somehow, if only just temporarily, transcend the doldrums of daily life and all its earthly hardships and practicalities. The soundscapes where Durack finds herself on Escape Artist, in and of themselves, are someplace heavenly and otherworldly in which to lose herself for just a little while: “Music has been a safe place for me to go to all this time.”