Apple Music Home Session: Eve Owen

Apple Music Home Session: Eve Owen

For Eve Owen, stripping back three of her songs and performing them for her Apple Music Home Session—where we invite some of our favourite artists to exclusively reimagine their signature tracks and covers—felt like her music was “returning home.” “When I wrote these songs, I would play them with voice and piano or voice and guitar, so singing them again like this felt like coming full circle,” the London singer tells Apple Music of the tracks here, each taken from her mesmerising debut Don’t Let the Ink Dry. “I chose these three songs because I feel they build in intensity lyrics-wise, and the way I like to sing them can vary a bit—I can twist and change the melodies in small ways. I also wanted to see how different I could make them sound coming back to acoustic versions.” The result is a gorgeously soothing session—the kind of thing you might listen to beside a campfire on your next staycation—and a reminder of the singer’s heavenly, occasionally haunting, vocals. For Owen, like many of us, lockdown has been a period of reflection, learning new skills (“I’ve fallen in love with painting, and have discovered that I feel more creative with music if I’m more creative in other parts of life too”) and listening to Taylor Swift’s Folklore on repeat (fun fact: Owen and Swift’s 2020 albums were both produced by Aaron Dessner of The National). “It has made me do a 360 with a lot of things,” adds the singer. “It has given me space to reflect and meet the world in my own way. Being far away from something, however lonely it is, always helps me see [it] differently. I think being inside so long was the thing that taught me most about the outside.”

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