Connie Lovatt's new album is out today, listen to new single "Zodiac"
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Connie Lovatt grew up in St. Thomas and has lived in New York and Los Angeles. She previously made music with Containe, The Pacific Ocean, Alkaline, and Smog. Coconut Mirror is a family record and a love letter/life guide to her daughter—full of carefully constructed songs about drownings, cockfights, the ocean, happiness, drug dealers, poverty, heartache and love—written over the past decade or more in Silver Lake/Los Feliz and Wellington. Because of time and space and COVID, the musicians who play on the album recorded their own parts and sent them in to Connie, who worked with Joe Wohlmuth on crafting her solo singer-songwriter debut into a beautiful whole with some of the music world’s most sparkling gems playing on it.
“Everyone that I’ve loved is in this record. Everyone that matters—women, men, they’re all in there somewhere ... I wanted to show my daughter that I could still make something after giving birth. I wanted to make a record with acoustic guitar where I’m telling my daughter all the stories that mattered to me.” — Connie Lovatt
About "Zodiac":
“Zodiac” is a song idea I’ve written about many times. The Pacific Ocean records, the Containe records, they all have a song about my friend Steven, who drowned with his brother Billy while scuba diving not far from our house in St. Thomas. He was one of those teenagers who was taking a break from living at home so he would stay with us. He was a little older than me and had more run of the island than I did, and he was sort of fearless. He would show up for dinner or breakfast and take off. He had this life that seemed so free. I always want to write a song for him, and I’ve done OK, but this one I think is it. I don’t have to write it anymore."
Photo below: Connie Lovatt in Carrboro, NC, 2023; photo: Gail O’Hara
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