Brooklyn-based indie-pop artist Rachel Bochner traces the end of a long-term relationship and the beginning of a different understanding of herself on I Guess A Sure Thing Couldn’t Go Down Gently. The album’s release announcement describes those changes as happening together: the grief of a breakup alongside the joy of recognizing her queer identity.
“Immense grief and immense joy,” Bochner says in the press materials, naming the tension at the center of the record. Her account resists the idea that a painful separation and a necessary personal discovery have to cancel each other out.
That conflict also informs “Fault Line,” a track the announcement singles out for its treatment of guilt. Bochner describes finding it easier to cast herself as an inherently destructive person than to examine the complicated ways someone can hurt a person they love. The song addresses that impulse to replace a difficult history with a simple explanation.
The album brings those questions into the candid songwriting that shapes Bochner’s indie-pop work. Its subject is both the relationship that ended and the stories a person constructs afterward to explain who they were inside it.
Chicago is included on the tour itinerary supplied with the release: Bochner is listed at Schubas on September 29, followed by a September 30 stop at Zhora Darling in Minneapolis.
Listen to the album on Spotify, and visit Bochner’s website for current performance information.
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