For those unaware, Beth Bombara’s new album It All Goes Up (due out August 4th, 2023) is for this moment what Kathleen Edwards’ Back To Me was for the early 2000s.

It was there - the songwriting first and foremost with a voice that connects on a raw, emotional level alongside production led by Bombara’s undeniable musicality, retaining the intimacy of being wholly conceived by the artist herself.

Bombara’s last album, Evergreen, was well-received by fans and media alike. The likes of Aimee Mann ad Jewel are fair comparisons, noted the L.A. Weekly, every tone is tinged with emotion, nothing is wasted.

With It All Goes Up, Bombara has risen to a new level and let some light in. There’s more light, more hope in this record, she says, and it feels more positive sonically, as well. These songs were written during the chaos of the past couple of years, and the time found Bombara looking for silver linings, writing to keep herself positive and keep her mind open and fresh.

During the pandemic I reconnected with an old guitar that had been collecting dust in my closet for many years. It’s a classical guitar, and I wrote a lot of the songs for this record on it, which brought something different to them and took the tone of the record in a new direction. Bombara’s songwriting certainly did take a turn - upwards, in more ways than one.

1. Moment
2. Lonely Walls
3. Everything I Wanted
4. Get On
5. Carry the Weight
6. Curious and Free
7. Give Me a Reason
8. Electricity
9. What You Wanna Hear
10. Fade

This elegantly-hued, smooth-as-silk new recording opens on the serenely fluent Moment and the pandemic-imbibed love song Lonely Walls and then we get brought forth the gently rambunctious, Linda Rondstadt-esque Everything, the veritably shimmering I Wanted, the swooning balladry of Get On and then comes my own personal favorite, the yearning ache of an outreach of kindness within Carry the Weight.

The Missouri-based singer/songwriter continues onward with the acoustically-driven, troubadour storytelling within Curious and Free and the heavy hitting, dulcetly weighty, deep-seated guitar work of Give Me a Reason, and then we get the more summery fare of both Electricity and the arm out, window-leaning, warm breeze of What You Wanna Hear, closing on the pleasurably-toned Fade.

After studying music in college, Bombara began playing in other people’s bands. It speaks to the depth of her musicianship that she played guitar and percussion in Samantha Crain’s band, bass in another project, and keys in yet another. So just in case you were not aware, Bombara has talent and ears way beyond those of your average singer-songwriter.

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