Beatrix Lets The Past Haunt Beautifully On "We Swallowed The Sky"

Written By: Big C

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Photo Credit: Makayla Keasler

Some memories don’t leave, they just learn how to echo. Turning old relationships and lingering wounds into an album. Arielle Kasnetz writes with the kind of honesty that stops feeling observational and starts feeling invasive. Beatrix builds We Swallowed The Sky around that exact haunting, as if the listener is overhearing thoughts never meant to leave the room. The album’s scale reflects the ambition of its writing, with co-producers Philip Etherington and Ehren Ebbage helping shape a live-band sound. The arrangements move with purpose, shifting from hushed piano passages to full-band swells. She added:

Sometimes I have a hard time being understood. And I think if I had to show somebody who I was or explain who I was, it would best be done by just playing them this album.

That same emotional release extends into the self-directed video for Upstate. Framed around a winding car ride through a day unraveling in real time, the video contrasts chaos with movement, using open-road imagery to suggest freedom even while the song remains rooted in regret. Sonically, the album stretches far beyond singer-songwriter convention, blending indie rock, folk, chamber-pop, and Americana into something textured enough to mirror the emotional sprawl of its writing. Greg Leisz’s pedal steel functions like a phantom throughout the project, giving the album a spectral thread that keeps the past hovering over every song. Released via Nice Life Recording Company, "We Swallowed The Sky" positions Beatrix not as an artist still finding her voice, but as one fully in command of it. Connect with Beatrix on Instagram, Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, and TikTok. 

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