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NEW ALBUM FEATURES CO-WRITES WITH ED ROBERTSON, TUCKER BEATHARD, KATIE PRUITT, ASHLEY MONROE, JESSIE JO DILLON, DUSTIN CHRISTENSEN, AND MORE
"Donovan Woods has been making his name on his sensitivity and lyrical honesty with every album. His latest is an examination of the little moments in a relationship. It’s a cycle about intimacy and human connection, something that resonates right now." - NOW
"Donovan Woods Pushes Pop to Its Introspective Limits on 'Without People'" - Exclaim!
“fleeting interpersonal moments now under the microscope” — NPR/KUTX
“Woods sings glowingly” — Billboard
“lyrics that quite simply can break a heart” — EARMILK
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A decade into his career and Donovan Woods’ songwriting remains wholly invested in exploring the human condition as he mines small moments to find greater truths. Donovan Woods' new album, Without People, is alive with intimacy and connection at a surreal time when we’re all in desperate need of both. The album is available today everywhere you can find music. Today, Woods is also sharing a dance interpretation of the album’s “We Used To” conceived and performed by Ariana and the Rose. The video is the most recent addition to the Donovan Woods With People Project which sees the songwriter supporting independent creators and bridging art and music culture during the pandemic.
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While created piece by piece from Woods’ makeshift home recording studio and other musicians in isolation from their homes, so much of the allure and power of Without People is rooted in how Woods connects with his collaborators. Produced by James Bunton and vocal producer Todd Clark (Dua Lipa, Noah Kahan, Phillip Phillips), the album recruits a stellar array of co-writers including Ashley Monroe, Katie Pruitt, Tucker Beathard and more.
From the snippets of warm chatter and lush strings on the title track to the gossamer layers of harmonies on “Seeing Other People”, the aching loneliness of “Grew Apart”, the tenderness of love’s redeeming grace on the evocative Katie Pruitt duet “She Waits For Me to Come Back Down”, Woods captures sentiments about wanting to be alone - until you’re suddenly lonely - and why we so often chase something we’re never going to get. Each song is a reminder that relationships are what bind us, and what matters most is how we treat one another and whether we’re truly listening and trying to understand experiences distinct from our own.
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“In the middle of a pandemic, as the truth of our environmental devastation sinks in, in the thick of protests reshaping our thoughts on policing and crystallizing the reality of white supremacy at work in all corners of our society, it feels silly to write about relationships,” says Woods. “But what I discover time and time again is that my brain wants to fixate on and examine small moments that may have seemed inconsequential but have ended up shaping my sense of myself. So if we are coming to the end of something (and it feels like we are), I can say that I tried my hardest to write truthfully about the people I’ve loved and the things I did wrong, and add my little verse to the story of what it feels like to be a person, longing for connection, and then longing for solitude, and then longing for connection. All in all, I think the record sounds like the times it was made in. Turbulent and lonesome.”
WITHOUT PEOPLE TRACKLIST
1. “Without People”
2. “The Last Time I Saw You”
3. “Seeing Other People”
4. “We Used To”
5. “She Waits For Me To Come Back Down” feat. Katie Pruitt
6. “Clean Slate”
7. “Man Made Lake”
8. “Interlude”
9. “Lonely People” feat. Rhys Lewis
10. “Grew Apart”
11. “Whole Way Home”
12. "High Season”
13. “God Forbid”
14. “Whatever Keeps You Going”
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