Erin Durant is a pianist and singer songwriter who brings in landscapes and notes from New Orleans, her birthplace, through New York City to Topanga Canyon.
An Erin Durant song tends to work in the manner of afternoon light, slipping in as subtle reflections, but quietly overtaking an entire room with a wild radiance. Maybe it’s the shimmer of her voice, the grounding presence of the piano, maybe it’s the nimble way her lyrics dart across subjects, but her orchestrated folk songs seem to arrive from another time, cascading over on some well-traveled wind.
Her work has garnered praise from Rolling Stone, The Guardian, Pitchfork, and NPR and drawn comparisons to Joni Mitchell's "For The Roses," Joanna Newsom, and Regina Spektor.
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Rolling Stone
”there’s a movie of a whole life in her few words, running backwards.” —Greil Marcus
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Pitchfork
"Quietly epic songs about heartbreak, determination, and loneliness." —Laura Snapes
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Dusted
"Erin Durant has a lovely, old-fashioned country voice, flute-y with vibrato at the top-end, rich with emotive sustenance in the mid and lower ranges. It’s the kind of voice that careers are built on, yet Ms. Durant, born in New Orleans now living in Brooklyn, refuses to take the easy road of relying on in-born talents. She brings complication, depth and contradiction into her songs with a sharp, modern writer’s pen and an idiosyncratic cast of supporting musicians.” -Jennifer Kelly
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American Songwriter
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Goldflake Paint
Guardian
Paste Magazine
New York Times
No Depression
NPR All Songs Considered
Various Small Flames