For fans of Waxahatchee, Julia Jacklin and Angel Olsen, here’s your new favourite name - A.O. Gerber. Raised in America's Pacific Northwest, Gerber took the adventurous way around when it came to her music career. From early fawnings with the guitar, piano and choirs at elementary school to university studies of Italian and Art History to a two year sabbatical working on farms; she certainly explored many avenues before arriving at her current destination. After the time spent away from academia, Gerber returned with a renewed eagerness for composition and songwriting, which has set the basis for her life as a musician in Los Angeles’ enduring indie scene. Her latest single, ‘In The Morning’ is a contemporary guitar song which gently unfolds with a folksy narrative, slow-and-steady progression and warm notes, until it explodes into alt-rock energy. Two moods exude from ‘In The Morning’; loss and freedom. These derive from Gerber’s experience driving up the Oregon coast on her first solo tour. As she recalls: .”A really traumatic relationship I was in ended days before leaving and I felt awful, but also really grateful for the excuse to leave the city. The first few lines and melody of the song popped into my head while I was driving to Lincoln City, Oregon, feeling the disparity between my emotional state and the intense calm of the surrounding natural beauty. I stayed at a KOA campground in Lincoln City that night; I sat in my parked car with my unplugged electric guitar and wrote the rest of the song.” As much as ‘In The Morning’ credits the healing power of travel, it’s really about the journey within. A.O. Gerber celebrates the experience of “feeling so overcome by sadness but also empowered to start anew, to find your way back to yourself.” - Hannah Thacker   [Photo credit: Nico Bernal]