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“Chopko’s lyrics turn her private world and the world at large into vivid cinema.“
Joe Kornfield, Boston Herald American
”Beautiful, exquisitely told, wickedly funny and earnest.”
Nathan Duvall, Lucid Pilot
Never Had a Love Like This, everywhere October 14th
Melanie Ida Chopko’s Never Had a Love Like This is a dispatch from the interior of modern adulthood—a sweeping indie folk record shaped by pandemic-era dating and phone-fractured intimacy. Across these ten tracks, Chopko charts a return to the body, to human connection, and to the natural world.
At once delicate, funny, and boldly roaring, the album offers a deeply personal response to some of our most pressing collective questions: the loneliness of modern life, technology, and a destabilized climate.
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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