Premiere: Amy O Shares New Single 'Early Days'

Premiere: Amy O Shares New Single 'Early Days'

New album Mirror Reflect Releases May 10 via Winspear

April 10, 2024

By Caleb Campbell

Photo by Justin Vollmar

Next month, Bloomington, Indiana-based indie singer/songwriter Amy O is set to return with her upcoming album. Mirror Reflect. It arrived nearly five years after her 2019 album Shell, the record finds Amy processing motherhood and the new experiences it brings. The result is a patient and homegrown effort, stitched together by a series of home sessions, song-a-day projects, songwriting workshops and online collaborations.

Last month, Amy shared the album's lead single, “Dribble Dribble,” and today she's back with another new track, “Early Days,” premiering on Under the Radar.

“Early Days” is a sparse and wonderful meditation on the early days of motherhood, traced with intimate details and plaintive imagery. The piece sees Amy unpacking complex, even poignant moments, recounting them in snapshots and vignettes. Her voice says a lot with very little, evoking aching beauty and sadness from just her vocals and a few echoing guitar chords. Though the results are understated, Amy makes them feel full and soulful, arranging each element into a dreamy lo-fi reverie as ephemeral guitar lines and intense vocals add to the mix.

Amy O says of the track, “This song is about my experience in the first year after my daughter was born. I experienced postpartum depression and anxiety and it was also the beginning of the pandemic. All in all it was a very difficult time. I wrote this a few years later, when my daughter was a toddler, after talking to a friend who was about to give birth. The conversation helped me to think about how far I would have come after postnatal depression and anxiety.'

Check out the song and video below. Mirror Reflect is expected to be released on May 10 via Winspear.