Brittany Davis joins Beyond the Boys Club to talk about their new album, Image Issues. The latest addition to the Consequence Podcast Network, Beyond the Boys Club is hosted by journalist, musician, and radio host Anne Erickson of Audio Ink Radio and the music outfit Upon Wings, spinning off from the interview column of the same name. The series highlights women and non-binary musicians as they offer their perspectives on the industry and discuss their personal experiences. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
On their new album, Image Issues, Brittany Davis fully addresses the obstacles they face as a Black, non-binary, and blind musician, as well as traumatic family experiences that have presented additional hurdles along the way.
“If you don’t feel good in your body or about your body, you can have all the awards in the world, but there is no positivity,” Davis says on the latest episode of the Beyond the Boys’ Club podcast (listen above). “So, I tell people that … being racially discriminated against, and discriminated against because one is blind is way different than being taught to hate yourself, because you can’t even see yourself.”
Image Issues — which blends R&B, soul, and hip-hop — is being released March 1st via Loosegroove Records, owned by Pearl Jam’s Stone Gossard, who became a fan of Davis through the Seattle music scene and is bandmates with Davis in the group Painted Shield.
As Davis tells it, Gossard heard Davis during a recording session at his studio, and immediately connected with their music.
“He actually heard some of the takes and he’s like, ‘Oh wow, this is something in there, this is different,” recalled Davis. “This is hearing me play and hearing me sing. He’s like, ‘Okay, this is something that could develop into something. Can we get an album? Can we get an EP?’ And it was honestly a group of us at first, but it then whittled down to just working with our mutual friend and myself. And Stone was just like enamored with the stuff that I was coming up with.”
Image Issues is available to pre-order at this location. Fans catch catch Brittany Davis at a couple of Seattle record release events on March 1st at Rabbit Box and Easy Street Records, as well as performing at the BottleRock festival in Napa, California, on May 26th.
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