The Brave Ones

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Spend my days eating peaches in the sand
ain't no better way
to occupy this tiny space I've been given
between the sun and the land.

Heard the oxen braying —
you know, the pretty ones
who yearn to be a man.
i said, "Well it is not half bad
you know,
despite zero defenses from the cold."

We'll be The Brave Ones
and thrive out of earshot of what was.

Fell into a depression in your hand,
a pilgrim's palmistry.
The arc of heart and head and crow's feet aside,
i’d never been somebody's ICE.

Give you little kisses
until the fishes come
and learn to rule the land.
Honey, well it is not that bad...
you know.
Despite our greatest efforts, we get old.

We'll make depraved love,
i have a geisha in my lung.

We’ll be The Brave Ones

Monday come and you shave my head again,
that old domestic rite.
An orbit and a new babooshka arrive,
a century of silence gone by.

Little Julia,
i'll take you fishing by
the reservoir some time,
your brother, your cousins, some peaches and my...
... The dream of love will happen in the snow.

We'll be The Brave Ones

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released October 20, 2020
released October 20, 2020
Written by Jocelyn Mackenzie
Arrangement by Sam McCormally
Produced by Jocelyn Mackenzie and Sam McCormally
Vocals by Jocelyn Mackenzie
Beats by Sam McCormally
Violin by Ludovica Burtone
Violin by Delaney Stöckli
Viola by Jonathan Echevarria
Cello by Emily Hope Price
Mixed by Nadim Issa at Let 'Em In Music
Mastered by Jett Galindo at The Bakery
Illustration by Monique Smith
Jocelyn Mackenzie – formerly of the critically acclaimed indie-folk trio Pearl and The Beard – has announced her debut solo album PUSH, due out on January 29, 2021 via Ani DiFranco’s Righteous Babe Records. A beautiful collection of songs about healing through radical self-love, PUSH was written entirely for string quartet and co-created with an all-star lineup of arrangers, engineers, and vocalists, including composers McCormally, Emily Hope Price (Pearl and the Beard, Jenny Lewis), Franz Nicolay (The Hold Steady, World Inferno Friendship Society), Adam Schatz (Landlady, Sylvan Esso), Emmy-nominated vocal engineer Dan Brennan (Sorry to Bother You), vocalist Jo Lampert (TuNe-YaRdS, David Byrne’s Joan of Arc), and many more.

“Pearl and the Beard were beloved touring mates and it’s wonderful to now support Jocelyn Mackenzie’s new chapter as a solo artist with Righteous Babe. Both Jocelyn and her music have an irrepressible spirit that will leave you feeling energized and uplifted.” --Ani

'"The Brave Ones" is a song about the push and pull of fertile power. It is a feral display of male and female energy at battle within the Self, which becomes a battle between one another. It is a mating ritual between the parts we accept about ourselves and the parts we attempt to hide. When the door to the cage of social construct is thrust open, the creatures inside cower, paralyzed, until they are able to nuzzle one another toward the courage to escape their self-made prisons. We free each other only when we free ourselves and speak loudly our deepest inner truths... and become the brave ones."

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jocelyn mackenzie Brooklyn, New York

Jocelyn Mackenzie is a Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter, artist, and psychic medium. Her debut solo album PUSH is a chamber pop homage to healing through radical self love. The fearlessness in her songwriting combined with the orchestral arrangements of each song alchemizes her pain into a poultice, making the album itself a testimony to hope, heartbreak, and what it means to be human. ... more

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