There is something about having your home entirely upended that makes you homesick for just about any place you go. Seeing the routines, people going about their lives, the mundanity, could all feel especially romantic when all that you’ve counted on to be consistent goes away. “I’ll fall in love with Anywhere, Ohio,” sings the golden-voiced Alexa Rose on her third album, Atmosphere, capturing this sentiment of longing in the wake of Hurricane Helene’s destruction in her North Carolina base.
Home is a feeling, Rose suggests on standout “Anywhere, Ohio,” and in the case of Atmosphere, so is a sound. Recorded between the vastly different environs of a studio and a cabin, Rose finds sonic warmth in both spaces, her songs the hearth around which soft electric and acoustic guitars, pedal steel and fiddle, and the occasional banjo all orbit.
