Today's Song of the Day, as chosen by John Richards, host of The Morning Show on KEXP, is "Hogar" by Eep, from the 2020 self-released album Death of a Very Good Machine.
With the song "Hogar," 52-year-old musician Rosie Varela launched a lifelong dream. Though she's been writing songs for over twenty years, it wasn't until she wrote this love song for her husband that she reached out to Ross Ingram, who owns Brainville Studios in Sunland Park, New Mexico.
“I asked him if he thought it was silly to want to record a shoegaze song at my age,” she admitted to the blog Noise Artists.
Instead, Ingram helped Varela assemble the band EEP, not only recording her ode to her spouse, but seven additional shimmery songs that encompass their full-length debut Death of a Very Good Machine, released last month.
“Ever since I was a girl, I dreamt about making a record and being part of a band of creatives," she continued. "This album, and our whole process, has felt like a dream come true for me.”
