Shannon Wright

Born and raised in Jacksonville, Florida, singer/songwriter Shannon Wright once led the acclaimed indie pop group Crowsdell. Shaped by the region’s vibrant all-ages punk community, she assembled the band alongside bassist Paul Howell and drummer Laurie Anne Wall, issuing their debut Dreamette in 1995—an underground favorite—before relocating to New York City. Tensions with the Big Cat label intensified following the 1997 release Within the Curve of an Arm, prompting the trio’s dissolution; an embittered Wright then sold most of her possessions and relocated to rural North Carolina, where she began capturing deeply personal, folk-inflected material on four-track. Several solo singles appeared before the full-length Flightsafety emerged on Quarterstick in 1999, with Maps of Tacit arriving the following year. In 2001 she issued the sparse mini-LP Perishable Goods together with the characteristically eclectic Dyed in the Wool. The tempered and emotionally rich Over the Sun followed in 2004, succeeded by the equally affecting Let in the Light in 2007. After her longtime home Quarterstick/Touch & Go ceased operations, Wright continued onward, releasing Honeybee Girls in 2009 and Secret Blood in 2010 while also appearing at the 2012 All Tomorrow’s Parties festival curated by Shellac. Her first project for Brooklyn-based indie Ernest Jenning, In Film Sound, surfaced in 2013. Division, tracked in Paris and Rome with producer David Chalmin, arrived in 2017.