Meg Duffy of Hand Habits wrote new album Blue Reminder as a reaction to what one does when happiness actually comes knocking. After years of collaborating and touring with musicians like Kevin Morby and Perfume Genius, Duffy still draws on the solace of that community, but takes center stage, with their most assured, classic songwriting yet against a backstop of nuanced instrumentation and moving testimony. The record is a celebration of commitment: to being a more honest version of yourself, driven by a romantic love that recognizes the beauty of imperfection. Lead single “Wheel of Change” is perhaps the most joyous and anthemic song Duffy has ever made, with a chorus that remains stuck in your head, but the record as a whole traverses a myriad of emotions where the stakes are higher than they’ve ever been. "Wheel of Change was the first song that we recorded for this record. And the wheel of change, it keeps on turning… even if I wanted to go back to something that used to feel important to me or true to me, it's impossible to do that now - I've done that with relationships too. I wrote it from such a different point when I wrote it so long ago now. Even though it feels like it’s not an angry song, it kind of is an angry song. It’s centered around when you’re in the grieving period, when you allow yourself to be pissed off. Songs have always been my way of telling somebody what I actually feel without telling them. And that's one of my favorite things about making songs, because meaning does come later. I really have this love-hate relationship with time too. That's always something that I'm trying to explore in my life and because of that in my writing."
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