Dancing Alone on the Concrete
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description: THIS IS A PREORDER ITEM. ALL ITEMS ORDERED ALONGSIDE A PREORDER WILL SHIP TOGETHER ON OR BEFORE THE PHYSICAL RELEASE DATE, OCTOBER 2ND, 2026. YOU WILL RECEIVE AN INSTANT DOWNLOAD OF "Danny," "Lovesick" AND "Thunder and Lightning" UPON PURCHASE. It’s been seven years since Detroit singer and songwriter Stef Chura released her last album, Midnight. Plenty of dramatic and life-altering things happened in those seven years: She broke off an engagement, she left Detroit for New Orleans (and then Louisville), she gave birth to her first child, she ultimately returned to Detroit. But those events are not the true story of Dancing Alone on the Concrete, her third album and second for Saddle Creek. The true story of this album—the experience that gives it its thematic and aesthetic shape—is more simple than that. Here’s what happened while Stef Chura was writing the songs that would eventually become Dancing Alone on the Concrete: She practiced the piano and the guitar a whole lot, and she went on dates. Single for the first time in years, Chura used the 2020 Covid lockdowns as an excuse to start over in New Orleans, where, like everyone else, she was mostly stuck indoors, unable to tour or play locally. “I was just writing and practicing,” she says. “By playing the piano more, I was learning more about transposing chords and things like that. I was going back and forth, playing songs on the guitar and the piano, and it lent itself to the writing process in a nice way.” Chura’s singing voice has always been unique—it’s brassy but contained, like a muted trumpet, and on Dancing Alone on the Concrete she plays around with little hitches and lilts, punching her melody upward in “Leadweight” as she sings about someone weighing her down. That song moves along on a “Sweet Jane” shimmy, its punchiness lightly inspired by Wreckless Eric’s “Whole Wide World.” Though it may seem like an obvious outcome considering the context, the album evinces a mastery of craft that only comes with …
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