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Katy Guillen & The Drive's debut album, Another One Gained, is a memoir of growth and reawakening by way of heart-wrenching transition and change. The vibrant textures tailored to each song, expanding on their gravitas with fuzzy electric and chiming 12-string acoustic guitars, oscillating tempos, warm vocal stacks, soul-stirring Wurlitzers, booming timpanis and more, add definition and tension to the album's themes of duality. This sonic landscape also announces a dauntless new direction for Katy Guillen & The Drive. Recorded at Invisible Creature Studio in Los Angeles, CA, the record was engineered and produced by Kevin Ratterman (Heartless Bastards, Ray LaMontagne). Bookended by admonitions of hope, "Another One Gained" reminds us that renewal and resolution can arrive amidst chaos and calamity.
