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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 stories, wickedly funny and earnest.” - Lucid Pilot
Never Had a Love Like This, out 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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Immense gratitude to my beloved 191 Kickstarter backers who made this album possible, especially Ryan Shrock, Erick Belzic, Bob Dortch, Susan Pritzker, my parents Marsha & Bob Chopko and Douglas Lovell. Thank you also to Aaron Wade, Anastacia Nutt, Arya Zarrinkelk, Asheley Munday, Avril Orloff, Barbara Ford, Barb & Jim Dillard, Benjamin Simrin, Bill Huggins, Billy Jonas, Chandra Thuy, Chris Turner, Chuck Shickley & Dawn Vincent, Connie Park, David Watt, Edie Hartshorne, El Kleiner, Elaina Sabbag, Erika Olson, Ivan Velkovsky, Jan & Wayne Morse, Jody Richardson, Joey Nelson, John Palmer, Jon Jackson, Josh Stack, Julia Novikova, Kersti Peter, Kim Morse, Kirk Watson, Lauren Horbal, Lloyd Dangle, Loreal Monroe, Lorna McLeod, Luc Richard, Mackenzie Thomas, Matt Marshall, Michael Paone, Michael Tallon, Natalie Vande Pol, Omar Seyal, Paul Heumiller, Raines Cohen, Roham Sameni, Roxanna Rawson, Sasho Donovan, Shilpa Jain, Steven Lung, Suzette Leith, Tony Su, Virginia Kowal & Zo Tobi.
