Girlpuppy

Booking Agent : Giorgio Salmoiraghi & Luca Ciscognetti

When beginning work on the second girlpuppy album, Sweetness, Becca Harvey realized the record-making process itself would be almost as important as the final product. On her first album of alt-pop anthems — 2022’s gorgeous, folk-infused When I’m Alone — the 25-year-old Atlanta-based singer-songwriter often felt like she was working in the shadow of her collaborators, writing words to their melodies and deferring to their creative impulses. Made on the other side of a relationship where she often felt marginalized, Sweetness became the space where Harvey reclaimed her voice, building songs from her own lyrical and melodic instincts.

The result is a darker, more texturally expansive record than its predecessor, full of heart-rending songs about pushing back against self-blame and doubt. Every element of Sweetness — from its heavy-duty sonics to its emotionally generous lyrics — exudes a newfound confidence, capturing Harvey in the moment of realizing she could trust her creative intuition.

Freed from the insecurity that she couldn’t be a songwriter without playing an instrument — she cites The National’s Matt Berninger as an inspiration — Harvey began by recording full-length a cappella voice memos. To build the soundscape, she drew from a lifelong range of influences, from the country and Top 40 pop of her Georgia childhood to later revelations like Elliott Smith, Lana Del Rey, and Yo La Tengo. Alongside Asheville-based producer/co-writer Alex Farrar and collaborators Tom Sinclair and Holden Fincher, Harvey found a sweet spot between shoegaze, dream-pop, and early-2000s pop-rock — raw, nostalgic, and defiantly her own.

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