The upcoming album, ‘Changing Seasons’, which is due out August 8th is the debut solo release from Wisconson born and now Los Angeles living singer and songwriter Hillary Reynolds. It marks a return to songs that Reynolds started working on five years ago and that lay in abeyance when she became a mother. There were other turbulent currents in that time as she explains: “It’s wild to think about how the album was written before I became a mother and then finished on the other side of that profound transformation. I already felt like a different person on the other side of the pandemic, but motherhood also threw me for a loop.”
Speaking more directly of today’s song Reynolds adds that: “‘Gaslight’ was actually written as a result of the 2016 election. I was sitting in a lot of fear and didn’t know where to put it. Some songs feel so consciously, meticulously crafted and this one really came from allowing my subconscious thoughts to unwind. I let my intuition drive the bus and ‘Gaslight’ was created. The melody and lyric describes what it feels like in my body to be gaslit – when the feeling of overwhelm meets hollowness with an unshakable need to call back love over and over and over again even in the darkest of times. I love the way the vocal harmonies weave in and out of each other throughout the entire song… makes it feel like a nod to my earlier choral years where Eric Whitacre was my hero and ‘Water Night’ was my north star.”
