Kris Delmhorst - Blood Test (2014)

Kris Delmhorst s new release Blood Test describes a moment of reckoning and centering in the songwriter s life, and in society as a whole. In her new collection, Delmhorst acknowledges the weary work of an intentioned life and the new American dream of presence and perspective in a frenetic time. Blood Test is Delmhorst s first album of original material since 2008 s Shotgun Singer. The intervening years witnessed the birth of her daughter with husband and fellow songwriter Jeffrey Foucault, and an accompanying shift in perspective.

Blood Test s fresh perspective was realized sonically by Delmhorst turning to a totally new collaborator friend and fellow songwriter Anders Parker (Varnaline, Gob Iron, New Multitudes). Parker brought two band members to Delmhorst: drummer Konrad Meissner (Brandi Carlisle, The Silos) and multi-instrumentalist Mark Spencer (Blood Oranges, Lisa Loeb, Laura Cantrell, Son Volt). And together, the four shaped Blood Test s landscape.