Having moved to Nashville five years ago, she admits to undergoing tremendous personal and artistic growth, as you can hear rising out of each of her tracks so far. Her stylistic cohesiveness is engaging, allowing her mellow vocal to flicker between biting and melancholic-but all the while possessing a calming electricity. I just love getting to connect with people through music,' she shares. 'All of the songs I write mean something personal to me, but there is nothing like the feeling of getting them out there and having them mean something to someone else. I love having the freedom with releasing music digitally to slowly reveal these pieces to the puzzle,' she says.

'I'll be releasing songs every eight to ten weeks and will eventually package the first five or six into an EP. I saw the song in red (cinnamon), blue (peppermint) and green (spearmint), but it always comes back to red.'ĭuval previously released the guitar-glossed, dusty banger 'Pink Cadillac' and the slow-simmering 'Stay Lonely,' both of which also sample her forthcoming EP (out later this year). I was primarily involved in the vocal production side of things while Luke and John collaborated on building the track.'Įven when Duval wrote the song, she 'saw it in color.' She adds: 'In the chorus, the line 'tried peppermint, spearmint, tried to move on' is reminiscent of attempting to move on from this person. 'We went back in the studio later and built out the track. It was just drums and a synth pad at the time, and I immediately started singing the chorus,' she explains of how the song's succulent and muggy layers came into play. 'Luke and I got to John's studio in Santa Monica, and John started playing the bare bones of this track. It is the vivacious percussion which hammers home the sugary storyline. Co-written with John Hill and county music stalwart Luke Laird-which happens to be 'one of the first songs' she wrote with them-'Cinnamon Gum' lingers on the senses. I need your sugar and your spice.' The imagery is engrossing, like a '50s noir film starring Marilyn Monroe. 'Nobody makes me feel like you did, though. 'I've gone out with a couple other guys,' she later muses on the second verse. Those sounds all came together for me in this song, especially.' 'I was also vocally trained on old jazz tunes (Ella Fitzgerald, Judy Garland, Billie Holiday). I grew up listening to 90s R&B/hip-hop that my older brothers listened to, so I love those drum sounds,' she adds about the song's syrupy sweet arrangement.

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