{"id":33235,"date":"2020-05-21T10:00:44","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T14:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/?p=33235"},"modified":"2020-05-15T18:49:46","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T22:49:46","slug":"playing-nashville-natalie-schlabs-see-what-i-see-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/playing-nashville-natalie-schlabs-see-what-i-see-premiere\/","title":{"rendered":"PREMIERE: Natalie Schlabs Provides Hope Amid Hardship in &#8220;See What I See&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-33239 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/NatalieSchlabs2_creditFairlightHubbard-e1589578474428.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/NatalieSchlabs2_creditFairlightHubbard-e1589578474428.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/NatalieSchlabs2_creditFairlightHubbard-e1589578474428-324x216.jpg 324w, https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/NatalieSchlabs2_creditFairlightHubbard-e1589578474428-416x277.jpg 416w, https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/NatalieSchlabs2_creditFairlightHubbard-e1589578474428-500x334.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/NatalieSchlabs2_creditFairlightHubbard-e1589578474428-700x467.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If your life feels like an endless struggle right now, folk singer-songwriter Natalie Schlabs has a message of hope for you. Her latest single, &#8220;See What I See,&#8221; reassures people in various difficult situations that there&#8217;s a light at the end of the tunnel, even if they can&#8217;t see it at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Are you lost in the dark?\/Look again, you might see a shooting star\/Honey, you are the sky\/you hold the sun \/you hold the shadow-side,&#8221; Schlabs&#8217; sweet, clear voice sings in a verse aimed at someone with depression. Another verse of the song speaks to someone dealing with a chronic illness.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think we can all offer our eyes to someone when they\u2019re having a hard time, imagining they will be OK again,&#8221; says Schlabs.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lHgFlzWrIjY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The song is on her sophomore album, <i>Don&#8217;t Look Too Close<\/i>, which comes out in October. Written during Schlabs&#8217; pregnancy with her first child, the album addresses family relationships, friendship, romantic love, vulnerability, and death, as well as &#8220;the hope that can still be girded underneath despair&#8221; and &#8220;the pain of letting someone go and allowing them to make their own decisions, even when you feel it is harming them,&#8221; as she puts it. &#8220;Basically, a lot of life lessons that come up when you enter your 30s.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Parenting is a central theme throughout the album: &#8220;Ophelia&#8221; was written for a friend who lost her daughter, &#8220;Endless Love&#8221; is a love song to Schlabs&#8217; own son, and &#8220;Don&#8217;t Look Too Close&#8221; is about not wanting your children to see your dark or dysfunctional side.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Being pregnant, I naturally did a lot more reflection, as well as thinking of the future and what I wanted to pass down. I think that probably led to more honest songwriting,&#8221; she says. &#8220;I\u2019m exploring the tension of being the best you can for your kid or loved one and knowing you&#8217;re a flawed human who is going to fuck up. You realize it was the same with your own parents and loved ones. There is a parallel line there that is interesting to me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The album features slow, gentle melodies, layered vocals and guitars, and indie and pop sensibilities combined with Schlabs&#8217; usual Americana style; she says that bands like Big Thief and The War on Drugs influenced the sound. The instrumentals include Caleb Hickman on saxophone and Joshua Rogers, Schlabs&#8217; husband, on bass.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This time, I was able to see the studio as an instrument to experiment with,&#8221; she adds. &#8220;I wasn\u2019t afraid to try things like running my vocal mic through a guitar amp.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Nashville-based artist&#8217;s other passion is cooking; she used to have her own catering business and wrote songs between food prep. Nowadays, her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/natalieschlabs\">Patreon<\/a> is dedicated to music, recipes, and even music-recipe pairings.<\/p>\n<p>Schlabs is currently working on creating a home studio as she writes more songs. In the meantime, her music serves as a reminder for those of us stuck at home to believe in better days ahead, and to cherish the people we&#8217;re stuck with.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Natalie Schlabs on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/natalieschlabs\/\">Facebook<\/a> for ongoing updates.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If your life feels like an endless struggle right now, folk singer-songwriter Natalie Schlabs has a message of hope for you. 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