DIANA DeMuth has always been travelling through, ever since her visual-artist parents repeatedly upped sticks in Massachusetts when she was a child. She has led a Kerouac-esque existence ever since, and a sense of movement propels the songs on her new album, Misadventure. Both intimately acoustic and rousing, as when she busts out of town with “nothing left to lose” in “Hotel Song”, the glorious escape of “Born To Run” (one of her favourite songs) comes to mind.
DeMuth: “I do get very close to the fire”
“Yeah, there’s a lot of movement in the lyrics,” says DeMuth, speaking with Uncut early one morning as she sits by the sea in Cape Cod. “Even if it’s not saying, ‘I wanna get out’ - it kind of is. The album always makes me want to get in and drive to listen to it.” DeMuth started work on Misadventure with Simone Felice in April 2019, staying in Woodstock and recording in the home studio of her other producer, David Baron, a mile from Hendrix’s old place in the Catskills. “There’s a humanity to the recordings, little sounds and breaths,” she considers. “And I think that’s a product of recording in nature and away from everything. We write and go outside and walk by the river. There’s no rush, ever.”