Its either her second album or her ninth, depending on how you count, which means Amy O is both a new artist and a veteran. Growing up in Fayetteville, Arkansas, she taught herself to play guitar and write songs, eventually recording a series of lo-fi albums as she moved around the country for college and work. The endeavour was more about her own experience: the thrill and the discipline of making art. Songwriting became a way for me to process things and make sense of my life. I got hooked on it emotionally.

Today, Amys songwriting processes remains the same. Elastic is an album about learning to live in your own inescapable skina challenge that defines not just Amys life, but everybodys existence. Identifying that universal truth has shaped Amy into an exciting and insightful artist, one who is no longer making music for herself but is working to command whatever stage she steps o