Sadie Campbell
“On a road trip, you’re going through different scenery, through tall mountains and then total flatlands,” says Sadie Campbell. “You have beautiful and sunny mornings, and then the sun goes down, and everything is moodier.”
Campbell’s first full-length record Metamorphosis embodies the ups and downs of a long drive. “It’s a variety of light and dark—different scenery, moods, and themes all together on the same project,” says Campbell. “It’s my lessons and my journey.”
Metamorphosis describes Campbell’s crossing through the dark spell she documented with producers Stuart Cameron and Peter Fusco on her 2021 EP The Darkroom. For Metamorphosis, Campbell, Cameron, and Fusco finally met in-person for the first time to collaborate at the Bath House in Ontario. The record they made spans a variety of genres and explores a similarly diverse range of emotions. Country, rock, and soul pepper tracks about sadness, discovery, and a dance-to-this kind of joy. “I wanted this record to have songs about these totally polar opposite topics, because that’s life,” says Campbell. “Songs about anxiety and hopelessness can live on the same record as love songs and hopeful songs.” And on Metamorphosis, they do.
“I’ve learned as the years roll on / It’s not the pedestal I want / There’s peace that comes along / with getting older”