Named a 2025 Artist to Watch by the Recording Academy, rising singer-songwriter Lanie Gardner is capping off a milestone week along with her Grand Ole Opry debut and the discharge of “Pale Polaroids,” the title observe from her extremely anticipated sophomore album, due out September 5 by way of BBR Music Group/BMG Nashville.
The one blends distorted indie-pop textures with Gardner’s commanding vocals as she flips by means of snapshots — some crisp, others timeworn — reflecting on the place she’s been and the place she’s headed.
“‘Pale Polaroids’ is the guts of the album,” Gardner shares. “The thought got here from going by means of a field of previous images. How I expertise life at the moment is due to these moments. The most important factor I’ve realized is how essential it’s to recollect. The straightforward issues make you cheerful, and to grasp that, you must seek for your self.”
Produced by Oscar Charles, Jonathan Singleton, Chris Ganoudis, and Don Miggs, Pale Polaroids builds on the uncooked honesty of Gardner’s 2024 debut A Songwriter’s Diary. Throughout 18 tracks, she blends nation storytelling with indie-rock grit and small-town pop, delivering a sound that’s totally her personal.
A local of Burnsville, NC, Gardner grew up surrounded by music, studying to sing from her mom and play guitar from her father. She moved to Nashville to pursue the Grand Ole Opry dream of her late grandfather — a dream that got here full circle along with her debut earlier this week.
Following her Polaroids EP and a breakout debut album that earned her accolades from the Recording Academy, Amazon Music, and Apple Music Nation, Gardner steps absolutely into her artistry on Pale Polaroids. Highlights embody the soul-cleansing “Takin’ The Gradual Trip,” the smoldering “Concrete Cowboy,” the nostalgic title observe, and the breezy “Love You Like Appalachia.”
Gardner will deliver Pale Polaroids to the highway this summer time and fall, becoming a member of Gavin Adcock on choose tour dates.
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