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KATIE BEJSIUK OLIVE, NY

Katie Bejsiuk (formerly known as Free Cake For Every Creature) releases a sparse and gentle folky track 'Olive, NY'. Taken from her upcoming album The Woman on The Moon, delicately bowed and sparingly plucked strings are the only accompaniment to the duetting voices of Bejsiuk and Jon Samuels (Friendship, 2nd Grade), whose deep and steady repetitions provide an anchoring point for Bejsiuk's resigned melancholy: "We found a house we can't afford". The song is about the struggles of finding a place to call home, as Katie explains, "In 2019 my partner and I moved from West Philly to upstate New York, partly with the intention to buy a cute little house and live out a pastoral fantasy. At the time, it was still possible to buy cheap property, but by the time we'd saved enough money, the pandemic had hit and housing prices had practically doubled. The song expresses my frustration with our process of trying to buy a house & also with the barriers to entry to ‘The American Dream.’" -Toby Evans-Jesra

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