Pre-Order: Bedouine – Neon Summer Skin [Indie Exclusive Olive Green]

On her new album, Neon Summer Skin, Bedouine, the project of Azniv Korkejian, explores this feeling of safety long before one can fully understand the concept. Written with vivid, honest and intimate imagery after visiting her family in Saudi Arabia, it tells the story of family and upbringing, and mourns the end of her childhood. There is a singular resonance and newfound heft in this music previously unheard in Bedouines discography.

Bedouine is known for making gentle, lilting folk songs that build fingerpicked guitar melodies into tsunamis of emotion. Her masterful songwriting and timeless melodies have earned her praise from publications like Pitchfork, who said her music boasts a surreal calm and lived in glow, and Rolling Stone, who lauded her humble folk-pop brilliance, plus an NPR Tiny Desk Concert, and tours with the likes of Fleet Foxes and Father John Misty.

While working on the record, Bedouine realized the pain of displacemen