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BATTS’ “Vessel of Love” is a Warmly Melodious Trip to a Collective Higher Place in the Heart

BATTS, photo courtesy the artist

BATTS released her third and latest album Just My Luck on October 18, 2024 and the single “Vessel of Love” showcases the singer-songwriter’s warmly melodious vocals and ability to write a song that feels both intimate and epic. BATTS’ soaring vocals and expansive song dynamics embody the part of the song with the chorus that is the title and its suggesting of using the power of love to lift everyone to a higher place if we are able to choose that path rather than those more selfish. The song feels like its going places and inviting everyone hearing to go on that trip and to “Hold space for me” because if people can do that for each other there will be room for everyone in a kinder and gentler headspace for the human community. That said, the song feels like a personal entreaty and not one so abstract and that’s why the song resonates as strongly as it does. Listen to the gorgeously spacious “Vessel of Love” on Spotify and follow BATTS at the links provided.

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BATTS Embraces the Art of Patience in Making it Through Life’s Melancholic Downturns on “Linger”

BATTS, photo by Lisa Fave

BATTS has often incorporated elements of space exploration in her earlier music. But for “Linger” featuring contributions from Deep Sea Diver there is a tender and rooted quality to the songwriting that is suited to its themes of a relationship on the rocks complicated by depression and the ways one can pull oneself out of that dark pit of the psyche and have any hope of repairing the bond through reconnecting with the things that made things work. Only to find out even those things aren’t having the effects they once did. But BATTS seems to sense that often being patient through these particularly low points and not acting on the impulses of a diminished capacity for vibrant emotional response can be the only way to get through. The lonely keyboard work in the beginning slowly blooms into a rush of sounds and feeling when joined by piano and the pulse of electronic bass and Deep Sea Diver’s backing vocals. This swell of sonics is like a hint of better times ahead that seem impossible in the moment and the song works on that level while honoring the feelings of being on the bottom end of things. Listen to “Linger” on Spotify and connect with BATTS at the links provided.

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