Weekly Women Wednesday Vol. LXV - Sedona

Do I wish it didn’t take the world bursting into utter chaos to rekindle the purest part of my love for music? Yeah, but here we are. I needed something I could sink into, to find a place to relive softer and warmer moments when everything else feels distant and unfamiliar. Maybe I’m just overly nostalgic, but music is my greatest tool to escape into moments so tender and fleeting that they seem to slip away with the bustle of my own thoughts. Sedona is making music that I can run away to, getting lost in motifs from decades past and simple times I might have taken for granted. Sedona herself fronts this band of five kick ass women all tearing it up on their respective instruments, conjuring up elements from every defining age of music, while still remaining authentic and captivatingly fresh. They’ve got that 60’s kind of swing, and the glimmering trance of the 80’s laced with jazz-timbre vocals, there really isn’t more a girl could ask for. I’ve had the newest track from Sedona ‘Closer’ on repeat since it first dropped earlier this year, this song depicts that instinctual magnetism you feel with someone that you just can’t kick. Even once you’ve come to what feels like an end, you can’t help but see them in everything you do. You feel it in every hitch of your stride, like you never realized how bad you needed them til they were gone, a sort of eternal longing that becomes almost addictive. It’s a hazy and disorienting feeling, mimicked perfectly by the song's dreamy synth and seductive bass line, a feeling that leaves you breathless and a bit off kilter. Sedona has always had this timeless sort of funk and groove, even in their debut single ‘Call Me Up’ you can hear the influences from all your roller-rink classics. The abysmal bass and percussion are lightened up with some lambent chimes and tambourines while Sedona sings an aching and love-struck confessional. It’s a fervorous display of passion, a cry out to someone you can’t get out of your head, sleepless nights spent waiting by the phone dreaming of those what-ifs.

Be sure to stream new single from Sedona, 'Closer' here, and keep up with them on Instagram!