Elexa Dawson and Stanley Hotel - Answer

“The music begins simply,” writes Elexa Dawson about “Answer,” the second advance single from Wanderlust (add date 1/23/2024), the forthcoming album by Dawson and Oklahoma band Stanley Hotel. “A round of hands clapping to attention. Guitar, piano and mandolin deliver the melody with the questions, ‘What can I answer? What can I do?’ An ancestral answer follows: ‘You are a part, a part of me,’ as the drums give birth to a fully feathered rock song. Then, the invitation: ‘come to the water, come now and drink.’ At the stream, a transformation begins.

“The crescendo delivers a cosmic shift, ‘I’ll change the color, I’ll change the light.’ Ethereal guitar accompanies the assurance, ‘life that’s within you, life within me’ evoking alignment with the star nations. ‘Here is your answer, meet me at the stream,’ releases the flow once again, with a weightless vocal cracking open the unsuspecting heart, guiding through the constellations, and back to solid ground.

“The clapping hands never stopping, holding space for the transformation necessary to receive the answer.”