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Every week, the <\/i>Milwaukee Music Premiere<\/u><\/i><\/b><\/a> sponsored by <\/i><\/b>Density Studios<\/u><\/i><\/b><\/a> connects the city\u2019s artists with our listening audience. If you\u2019re an artist with a track you\u2019d like us to debut exclusively on Radio Milwaukee, head over to our <\/i>Music Submission page<\/u><\/i><\/a> to learn how.<\/i><\/p>\n Change happens in its own time. It can be incremental or thunderously sudden \u2014 or, in the case of \u201cBlush On\u201d from voulouse, both.<\/p>\n The project from Milwaukee-raised Jacquelyn Beaupr\u00e9<\/a> is new, but Beaupr\u00e9 herself is a familiar name to the city\u2019s music scene through her work with Americana duo Blessed Feathers. The track we\u2019re helping her debut today emerged from the aftermath of that band\u2019s dissolution way back in 2016 but needed time to marinate before she was ready to share it with the world.<\/p>\n In the fall of that year, Beaupr\u00e9 had decamped to the Western U.S. as she processed \u201cthe shedding of the old, uncomfortable, vulnerable, unknown, exciting; the feeling that moving on is<\/i> vulnerability, and that in that I will make mistakes and have to get used to that. I was stumbling into new territories by ripping down all the veils around to see what could possibly have been missing before.\u201d<\/p>\n One of the fruits from that labor is \u201cBlush On,\u201d which she split-wrote in Arizona and California but recorded all the way back in her home state at Honeytone Music Studio in Neenah. Lyrically, it reflects many of the actions and emotions Beaupr\u00e9 experienced a decade ago while navigating the period of upheaval:<\/p>\n It\u2019s so easy<\/i> It\u2019s hard to ignore the irony interlaced with those last couple lines, considering the patience Beaupr\u00e9 exercised while finding her way back to music. She noted that it \u201cfelt like creating new pathways\u201d and was at times overwhelming before settling into a \u201ccollaborative, magical and warm process.\u201d<\/p>\n Those are pretty accurate descriptors for the sonic signature of \u201cBlush On.\u201d It was produced beautifully by Patrick Boland, Marty Brueggemann and Jeff Patlingrao, with the latter two playing on the track as well. Together with Beaupr\u00e9, they create a sound that makes change feel natural \u2014 a guest that drops by unexpectedly but isn\u2019t unwelcome.<\/p>\n A brief acoustic-guitar intro suggests something gentle in store, but that\u2019s set aside as the track begins in earnest. This isn\u2019t a feathery, floating affair. Instead, there\u2019s a kind of insistence that comes across through Beaupr\u00e9\u2019s vocal syncopation, a punchy piano line and a bridge driven by electric guitar that provides a hint of chaos before things settle down for the final verse.<\/p>\n When you sit on a song for a decade, you run the risk of it becoming irrelevant, either thematically or sonically. For \u201cBlush On,\u201d Beaupr\u00e9 seems to have gotten the timing just right.<\/p>\n You can listen to the new track from Beaupr\u00e9\u2019s voulouse project using the player at the top of the page or on the 88Nine airwaves throughout today (7:30 and 11:30 a.m.; 3:30 and 7:30 p.m.). For more music from voulouse, including additional singles that sound like they\u2019re on the way later this year, go to the project\u2019s Bandcamp page<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
You can watch me<\/i>
Blushing on and\u00a0<\/i>
Going around\u00a0<\/i>
Making mistakes<\/i>
I\u2019ll try harder<\/i>
But some things can\u2019t wait\u00a0<\/i>
Why deny them?<\/i><\/p>\n