Mel Parsons Shares New Album 'Slow Burn'

Mel Parsons graces our Friday with her fifth studio album Slow Burn, the follow up to the Best Folk Artist / Te Kaipuoro Taketake Toa award winner's 2018 long player Glass Heart. Written at the Lyttelton-based songwriter's home and polished off at LOHO studios with producer / multi-instrumentalist Josh Logan and band, featuring Aaron Stewart on bass and Parsons’ cousin Jed Parsons on drums and backing vocals, Slow Burn is an unabashedly big-hearted affair. Feeling not unlike the emotional weight of a turbulent past few years has been transmuted via some alchemical process into eleven lushly recorded folk ballads / torch songs, with the artist's powerful and expressive vocal skills shining throughout, don't miss Parsons touring Slow Burn nationwide in October and November...

“This is my fifth album, and my goal is still the same — I just want to make people feel something.

“The band came in fresh without having heard any of the songs... I think it gave the sessions a vital energy - it’s quite a different thing compared with recording songs that have been toured a lot prior to hitting the studio.” — Mel Parsons

Mel Parsons Slow Burn Album Release Tour

Friday 7th October - Paisley Stage, Napier
Saturday 8th October - Globe Theatre, Palmerston North
Thursday 13th October - Totara St, Tauranga
Friday 14th October - Nivara Lounge, Hamilton
Saturday 15th October - Hollywood Theatre, Auckland
Sunday 16th October - San Fran, Wellington
Saturday 29th October - Isaac Theatre Royal, Christchurch
Friday 18th November - Turner Centre, Kerikeri
Thursday 24th November - Theatre Royal, Nelson
Friday 25th November - 4th Wall Theatre, New Plymouth
Saturday 26th November - Port Chalmers Town Hall, Dunedin

Tickets available HERE
 

'Slow Burn' is out today on major streaming services, compact disc and vinyl LP via Cape Road Recordings — vinyl and CD orders available HERE.