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‘Never Had a Love Like This’ is a dispatch from modern adulthood—a sweeping indie folk record shaped by the fog of modern dating and tech-fractured intimacy. Across these ten tracks, Chopko charts a return to the body, to human connection, and to the natural world. An unflinching, satisfying work from an artist who holds an entire generation’s worth of frustration and longing in her gaze to craft for us a rare gift: recognition.
At once delicate, funny, and boldly roaring, the album offers a deeply personal response to some of our most pressing collective questions: loneliness, technology, and a destabilized climate. What distinguishes Chopko is her reverence for arrangement, elegant melodies and sheer groove. Her voice and piano skip across genres of folk, big band, jazz and even samba, accompanied by strings, horns, percussion, and clarinet. But the textures of the record only ever follow its beating heart: Chopko’s startling vulnerability and sharp, luminous wit.
In Chopko’s world, struggle doesn’t need to be conquered to be beautiful. These are songs of joy, comfort, and stubborn hope forged in the underbelly of uncertainty. An unflinching, satisfying work from an artist who holds an entire generation’s worth of frustration and longing in her gaze—and crafts for us a rare gift: recognition.
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Youtube - 13.6K Views
Instagram - 1.2K Followers
Spotify & Apple Music - 7.3K Streams
PRAISE FOR ‘NEVER HAD A LOVE LIKE THIS’
"It’s rare that a songwriter truly tries to sift through the grey areas of intimacy and romance in search of meaning, but Chopko does just that. The images her resistance-melting voice and chords paint are so vivid you can almost touch them - the songs shine like a diamond.” - Americana UK
”Beautiful, exquisite, wickedly funny and earnest.” - Lucid Pilot
PRAISE FOR ‘I COME FROM’
“Standing out in today’s musical landscape, Melanie Ida Chopko crafts an intimate and personal blend of chamber pop and indie folk, centering around her deeply emotive vocals. ‘I Come From’ is a magical adventure that speaks to a modern generation."
Aldora Britain Records
“Finely wrought, contemplative and subtly baroque.”
Bill Kopp, Mountain Xpress
“Chopko’s lyrics turn her private world and the world at large into vivid cinema.“
Joe Kornfield, Boston Herald American
"Melanie Ida Chopko has that precious and rare quality that we long for in our artists…a unique way of seeing. Happily she also has the grace of melody and words to communicate it to us."
Rachel Efron, Producer
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