Premiere: Jackie Lee McLean (ex-Roan Yellowthorn) Shares New Single 'All Mine Now'
New album All mine now It will be released later this year
March 04, 2024
For the past few years, singer/songwriter Jackie Lee McLean has been making widescreen indie rock under the moniker Roan Yellowthorn, most recently returning with her 2021 album, Another LIFE. Later this year, she is set to return with her first self-titled album, All mine now.
She says of the upcoming album and the decision to record under her own name, “I put out three albums as 'Roan Yellowthorn' and was processing and enduring a lot of personal, professional and family difficulties during that time. In my life now, I feel like I own myself. I am an independent artist. I own my music. I have my art. I have my story. I have my own name. And it feels incredibly liberating and liberating to be able to release whatever song I want and make videos that speak to me and do it all in a way that feels right to me. With everything I do now, I am now able to say, “This is me. Take me as I am.'”
Today, to accompany his new albums, McLean also shares the album's title track, premiering with Under the Radar.
“All Mine Now” finds McLean exploring fresh new territory, guided by a steady backbeat and sunny guitar lines. The results feel soft and understated, bringing a sense of warm intimacy to McLean's golden vocal melodies. McLean's vocals don't rise above the calm instrumentals as she settles in between the strummed guitar and loose beats, sharing space with soft tones as her lyrics offer moments of vulnerability and strength: “I stopped taking my Lexapro about three weeks / I wanted to remember how to feel / Now I've got my sex drive back but I'm worried in my mind / I'm spinning like a big ferris wheel… And they're all mine now / They're all mine / They're all mine now / I won not to leave you anymore”.
McClean says of the track and accompanying video:
“Making this music video with Jason and Vanessa (of Greer Cicarelli Creative) felt like I was living a dream. I had the plot idea in my head one night and told Jason and Vanessa the next day. Within days we were at my house and ruled it out. I love one shot videos and was excited to do one for this song. I think there is something powerful about following a person for an uninterrupted period of time. There is an intimacy to it. What you see is what really exists. There is no manipulation of the scene.
For this video, I wanted it to somehow reflect my everyday life. The video is shot at my house, in my bedroom. Driving my car. The content of the songs on this album is very personal and it was important to me that the accompanying visual matched that level of intimacy. By releasing music under my own name, I have a desire to telescope my personal and artistic life into one – to not have the separation that comes from using one name for art and another for everyday life. In that sense, the video achieves that goal as well. It shows me in my true element, playing out a version of what my day looks like.
This song is about reclaiming my identity, my life path and my name. For a long time I felt that all these things were not really mine. Over the past few years, I've done a lot of editing, developing and learning. I've really come out the other side of a deep sense of wonder, disappointment and sadness.”
Check out the song and video below. Jackie Lee McLean's debut solo album, All mine nowexpected to be released later this year.
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