Fresh Track: “Twilight,” by Alice Howe

August 23, 2019 Ken Templeton

Listening to Alice Howe’s song, “Twilight,” I can imagine a club full of people anticipating and belting the chorus with her. It would fit right in at a good Irish pub–it has all the beauty and tension of all those great songs that you know by heart. It’s the dichotomous spaces that Howe explores so wonderfully in this song–togetherness and solitude, staying and going, and the song’s focus on twilight works perfectly as a throughline.

Alice says, “The first glimmer of a new song often comes to me when I am singing to myself in a moment of inspiration. I’ll be taking a walk, or sitting somewhere outdoors, and I will begin improvising with words and melody. The stillness and solace that I find in nature allows me to tap into something timeless, a pure thread of creative energy that urges me to sing.”

“I began writing “Twilight” while I was on a trip to Florida with my mother and several of her friends. Left to my own devices, I spent several days deeply focused on the song. I sang to myself out on the dock in the morning, I sang while lazily bicycling up and down the dirt road, and I sang sitting on the sand watching the sun sink below the horizon. The chorus of the song begins, ’There’s nothing like being alone at twilight.” Through this song, twilight has come to mean many things to me. It’s the golden hour in the evening, the moment of peace, synchronicity, and solitude where I can speak fearlessly from my heart, and it is a crossroads, a moment of transition and questioning where you learn to embrace the unknown.”

Check out “Twilight” and find more about Alice–tour dates and more music–at her website!