@jobiriccio will release “Face the Feeling” on 5/15 via
@yeproc !
Co-produced by Riccio & longtime collaborators Isaiah Beard & Jesse Timm (
@juicytimm ), the album marks a bold sonic evolution mirroring a deeper emotional reckoning at the core of the album. Expanding beyond the folk & country foundations of her breakthrough debut album “Whiplash”, Riccio moves toward a more electric, indie-rock-driven sound.
Where “Whiplash” chronicled her coming of age & the search for escape, “Face The Feeling” finds Riccio confronting emotions she once tried to outrun - grief, rage, self-doubt, & desire - & choosing to sit fully inside the discomfort.
Riccio treats each emotion as something unavoidable & illuminated, like a billboard flashing into view at full speed.
Throughout the album, she finds masterful balance between extremes, indulging in the light & the dark, the subtle & the direct, the ecstatic highs & the mournful lows.
“You have to chase what moves you, what’s exciting you,” the Nashville-via-Colorado musician says.
For Riccio’s sublime debut album, “Whiplash”, that meant exploring growing up & coming of age, hoping to find a route away from chaos & pain.
With "Face the Feeling" she courageously wades into the uncomfortability & luxuriates in the catharsis, finding a remarkable strength in leaning into the power of change rather than resisting it.
In addition to the shifting inspiration, Riccio reaches beyond folk & country to find a new, more electric path through emotionally unguarded terrain.
By merging the introspective storytelling of Americana with the restless pulse of indie rock, she reaches a deeper strength than those filling her already impressive résumé.
With “Face the Feeling”, she pushes beyond expectation towards her most confident & expansive work to date.
“I wanted to create a place - for myself and for others - to face the good, bad, & ugly feelings,” Riccio says. “Even when the noise of the world gets overwhelming.”
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