Natalie Del Carmen

Raised amongst the pavement and pop radio of Los Angeles, Natalie Del Carmen creates her own musical geography with Pastures. It's the sound of a modern-day folksinger narrowing her focus and expanding her reach, funneling the wide-ranging sounds that appeared on her debut album — 2023's critically-acclaimed Bloodline — into a sharp, singular version of American roots music. Recorded with Brunjo, the Tennessee-based musical collective whose members first crossed paths with Del Carmen while attending Berklee College of Music, Pastures captures the zeitgeist of 20something life in all its charmed and contradictory glory. These coming-of-age songs — many of them written on the 1930s banjo that Del Carmen inherited from her grandfather — find the Gen Z songwriter stepping into something timeless, joining the ranks of Kat Hasty, Maggie Antone, Noeline Hoffman, Ken Pomeroy, and other empowered artists bringing a female perspective and youthful outlook to the Americana space.