Why Bonnie – 90 In November, Dinked Edition

Description

Dinked #197 is the debut album from New York based Texans Why Bonnie, released on Keeled Scales on 19th August.

Following their 2020 “Voice Box” EP, 90 in November crashes into existence with a squeal of feedback and a burst of distorted guitar. Inspired by fellow Texans Townes Van Zandt, Blaze Foley, alt-rock like the Lemonheads and the Replacements, the eccentric pop of Sparklehorse, and Sheryl Crow, the album is a dynamic introduction to an evolutionized Why Bonnie. 90 in November is a meditation on the pains and pleasures of nostalgia and a lesson in learning how to look back at the people, places, and experiences that have shaped us, with room for both unvarnished honesty and rose-tinted melancholy. 

The songs for 90 in November were mostly written in Brooklyn,  where lead-singer Blair Howerton moved from Austin in 2019. Already in the midst of a major life change, her feeling of being between worlds was compounded when quarantine hit and she found herself, like so many others, stuck in her apartment—about as far away from the wide-open spaces of Texas as one can possibly get. It was in this environment that she began to write songs parsing out the complicated, mixed emotions associated with building a new home while attempting to make sense of the one she had left behind.

The Dinked edtion of ’90 In November’ is limited to 400 numbered copies on opaque pink & green vinyl with a bonus flexi-disc of bonus track ‘Apple Tree’