Tell Me What You Miss The Most

by Tasha

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DeKremp There's a difference between having a great voice and USING a great voice. She knows how to USE her great voice. Favorite track: Bed Song 1.

giventofly87 I can’t express just how much I needed to hear this record exactly is it came across my feed. I’ve been in such awful disconnect with my feelings and self recently, and suddenly this music helped realign me completely. It also doesn’t hurt that the songs feature beautiful, rich guitars and Tasha’s exquisite voice.

Thank you so much for this record, and I can’t wait to hear even more gorgeous music in the future. Favorite track: Year From Now.

levgre So relaxing, comforting, and exciting! Favorite track: Perfect Wife.

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1.	Bed Song 1 03:59	lyrics	buy track
If I could I would stay here in this bed all day long But I quite like the way pretty girls sway to my songs Won’t you lay near me please goodbyes aren’t easy to swallow Here take my heart for me I don’t need all this old sorrow Hey I dare you tell me what you miss the most Is it naps in sandy beds brown bodies close Let’s try once more Give me one warm August night In that blue dark we’ll forget to cry and fight If I could I would stay here in this bed all day long But I quite like the way pretty girls sway to my songs Won’t you lay near me please goodbyes aren’t easy to swallow Here take my heart for me I don’t need all this old sorrow
2.	History 03:42	lyrics	buy track
We’ve all been through this before but sometimes it still feels like the first Must I admit it’s done Must I return your sweaters and your shirts My yearning’s not quite out I still imagine you’ll be home tomorrow Was it me Did I not prove to you how far I’d go Why can’t we just laugh pretend this is just a game we play I’m not ready yet to meet a stranger with your name What kind of morning soothes without some sweet mouth near to give a kiss before I leave Perhaps I just might learn to fall asleep without your breath so steady next to me And if I wake in sweat from troubled dreams this day’s bright blue will have to be enough for me I’ll have to pick and choose which songs to sing it seems every one keeps on reminding me of being in love It wasn’t so long ago But what’s left of touch What’s left of us and our long history
3.	Perfect Wife 03:38	lyrics	buy track
I’m a wreck I’m in over my head Find myself at your doorstep again and again Something so sweet in the way that you soothe Sure I’ll stay up all night honey just for you Let’s find some place we can go out and dance You wear your hair down I’ll wear my favorite pants On the floor I’ll be stunned every time Truth is darling you’re such a perfect wife Perfect wife! I can see us I know that it’s true You’ll take care of me I’ll take care of you too Every morning I’ll blush and I will smile I’ll say pinch me please how can it be you’re by my side? Let’s find some place we can go out and dance You wear your hair down I’ll wear my favorite pants On the floor I’ll be stunned every time Truth is darling you’re such a perfect wife Perfect wife!
4.	Sorry's Not Enough 04:51	lyrics	buy track
Sorry’s not enough They won’t look at me What if I touch their hand What if I touch their knee In this restaurant I’ve gone and fooled myself thinking they’d love me still through all that doubt we felt How come I’ve not grown up Could it be I’ve not learned to care Even when I’m held so much how come I can’t keep them there Hopefully in time I’ll know what I want and stop hurting everyone who ever cared for my heart I’ll try again in the morning I’ll be okay with the ending
5.	Love Interlude 01:37	lyrics	buy track
She said in another universe, we would be so sweet to each other. But I wondered why it isn’t this universe, the one we’re in now, that we get to be sweet. Fully sweet. There was really no other answer but her. Her wanting was the end and the beginning.
6.	Dream Still 03:05	lyrics	buy track
I’ll find you late in the morning with sleep in your eyes Wish it was as simple as saying I think we’ll be fine What’s the use in talking it out more I’m losing my mind Let’s be sweet just for today I’m so tired of crying We’ll make up of course we’ll kiss and you’ll whisper to me All I need is this And Spring will come so warm at last and the worst of it all will have surely passed It’s true I dream still about your face and the gentle little life we might have made I feel so young and also old If it’s love that I need I’ll make it so
7.	Burton Island 02:19	lyrics	buy track
Wait for the suns last song Do you know where she sings from We’ll be gone when morning comes So for now honey dance for a while, dance for a while Dance for a while, dance for a while Lay on this lapping shore Every lake reminds me of another I’ve swam before What’s this fondness I’ve found for this seagulls call Some cool calm I’ve not felt in a while, felt in a while Felt in a while, felt in a while
8.	Lake Superior 04:09	lyrics	buy track
Do you remember that warm fall day we brought Grandma’s ashes up to Lake Superior down the shore we called out her glorious name Oh I remember the blue of that sky The water cool around our legs the way it never ended Couldn’t help ourselves we had to cry But I do wish I told you you’re the bravest one of us all So much joy we can cling to even if the missing don’t stop So comes summer and with it this rush for breezes gentle on our cheeks and lips so easy smiling We’ll devote ourselves let this carry us But I still wish I told you you’re the bravest one of us all So much joy we must cling to even when the missing don’t stop We’ll find ways to keep in the sun Roll out of bed into an open palm Shielded from this world’s weary spell Hush now, you are safely held Hush now, you are safely held
9.	Year From Now 02:10	lyrics	buy track
Don’t wait for a sign It’s time to let go Stop wishing for someone to tell you some secret that you’ve always known Go out for a drive Go out for a smoke Look for a sign of life in every breath and every sky and every hand hold A year from now you’ll forget what it felt like Won’t remember how your body stopped feeling like your own A year from now you’ll forget what it felt like Won’t remember how your body stopped feeling like your own But you’ve got a blessed kind of heart And you’ve spun out wonders from your love Whisper this and know that it’s true Tasha you’re brighter than you’ve ever been
10.	Bed Song 2 03:01	lyrics	buy track
I’d prefer to sleep in a bed my own at least for some time till I can feel whole I’ve forgotten what loneliness allows brings a sweetness near only I can rouse It’s this sleepy song It’s this misty sky Think I’ll pull her close Think I’ll call her mine

about

Tasha’s second album, Tell Me What You Miss The Most mingles pockets of introspection with wide, expansive, marveling at what’s yet to come. Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, Tasha is a musician who writes songs that take loving and longing seriously. Whether dwelling in the sad thrum of an impending break up or the dizzying, heart thumping waltz of new infatuation, here is an album that traces one artist’s relationship to herself in love. Full of deep, invigorating inhales and relieved, joyful exhales, Tell Me What You Miss The Most is an exquisitely crafted breath of much needed air.

“Won’t you lay near me please / goodbyes aren’t easy to swallow / Here take my heart for me / I don’t need all this old sorrow” Tasha sings, her voice smooth and honeyed in the first track of the album “Bed Song 1.” She stands on the brink of saying farewell to something once-sweet, the sentiment swirling into the slow-walking pace of the second track, “History,” which wonders aloud “Was it me / Did I not prove to you how far I’d go”. Still, the album refuses to stagnate, instead taking the listener on a whirl across a much-missed dance floor in “Perfect Wife,” calling to mind the sheer pleasure and giddiness of dancing hand-in-hand with a pretty girl. “Perfect Wife” is also a track that demonstrates Tasha’s musical versatility and showmanship, featuring a seamless, slightly retro chorus embroidered with the lilting chirrup of flutes as played by Vivian McConnell.

Yes, Tell Me What You Miss the Most isn’t just a catalogue of tenderness----it’s also a showcase of Tasha’s growing and formidable musicianship. “When I made Alone at Last, I had only been writing songs for two years. I hardly even knew what kind of song writer I was. But this record feels much stronger as far as a representation of my songwriter and musicianship,” says Tasha, adding “I did feel like I was piloting it in a way that I haven’t really felt before.” Take the heady soprano whisper of “Sorry’s Not Enough” that crests into the wave-crashing roll of dissonance propelled by Ashley Guerrero’s insistent drumbeat. From its attention to instrumentation, the clean strumming of guitars both acoustic and electric, to the steady stretch of Tasha’s vocals across each verse and chorus, this is an album that follows an artist as she produces a sound all her own.

In its second half, the album becomes more spacious, peering with clear eyes toward a blue horizon threaded with a folk tinged, out-of-doors sound. Chimes recorded outside her grandfather’s house twinkle on “Love Interlude.” On “Burton Island,” Tasha sings of “the sun’s last song,” asking “honey dance for a while, dance for a while.” In fact, many of these songs seem to invite gentle dancing, the type of breezy bodily weaving one might engage in on a Saturday morning or a firefly-dotted summer night. These are swaying songs,” Tasha says, extending an invitation to her listeners to rock back and forth, cradled by her music.

“I was inspired by a distance I felt from myself,” says Tasha of the album, “the writing was kind of born from this desire to get back to an intimacy, or honesty, with myself.” Other inspirations include kissing, long drives in nature, her mother, and “winter and all that it allows (being alone inside, wrapped up in something warm, feeling things deeply.)” Her list of inspirations is a collection of types of touch; fleeting affectionate touch, the brush of a knit blanket, the bracing grip of feeling one’s own skin twinned in a palm. So too does the album veer in and out of touch with Tasha herself, tracing tenderness and loneliness, the paradox of feeling held and utterly abandoned at once.

As the album winds down, the feeling of a sun setting or a year ending begins to glow, as if Tell Me What You Miss The Most charts a path through the desolate starkness of a personal winter, the blossoming of an internal spring, the blaze of a heart’s summer and then the golden dénouement of autumn. Regarding the shape of the album itself, Tasha discusses her intention for it to feel like a finished, fully realized piece of art. She says, “I wanted very much for this to feel like an album with a start and finish, where there’s an arc that’s brought back around.” An organic feeling of rise and fall lifts the album from beginning to end, especially given the bookend of “Bed Song 1” and “Bed Song 2.” Between these Bed Songs lies a journey of emotional burnishing, of loss, realization, re-imagination, with dreams bounding toward the future. Still, we begin and end in a place of intimacy and rest, reflecting Tasha’s long held belief in the necessity and power of respite. Listeners might recognize the bed as not just an album through line but a career one. Even while Tell Me What You Miss The Most represents growth and change, Tasha notes that “there are parts of me as a songwriter and emoting poet-person that carry over. Bed might be the obvious connection.”

Listen to Tell Me What You Miss The Most as the sun peeks its downy head over the rooftops. Listen as you sit down to your cup of coffee, listen as you remember someone you once loved and wonder what might have been. Listen as you imagine different pasts, their many colors laid out before you, dizzying in their potential. Listen as the sun sets again and the moon rises, her cool face perfectly hung in the night sky. Listen as you imagine all the people you might some day be, all the mornings you’ll grow to greet. Listen as you pull someone close. Listen, and let the album pull you close.

credits

released November 5, 2021

All songs written by Tasha Viets-VanLear
Produced by Tasha Viets-VanLear and Eric Littmann
Recorded and mixed by Eric Littmann at his home studio in Chicago, IL
Drums recorded by Abby Black at Audiotree Studios in Chicago, IL
Mastered by Dave Vettraino at Public House Sound Recordings in Chicago, IL
Vocals & Guitar by Tasha Viets-VanLear
Bass by Eric Littmann and Tasha Viets-VanLear
Drums by Ashley Guerrero
Additional guitar by Eileen Peltier on “History” and “Year From Now”
Flute by Vivian McConnell on “Perfect Wife” and “Dream Still”
Violin by Macie Stewart on “Bed Song 1” and “Lake Superior”

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'Tell Me What You Miss The Most' out now on Father/Daughter Records.

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