Kevin Bronson on July 10th, 2019

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For six years, Alex Moore played bass for indie-rock soldiers the Dead Ships. After departing in early 2018, Moore embarked on a reclamation project: himself. He sought to reconnect with, or rediscover, the person he was. And in the process, he began writing the songs he will release under the name Cowgirls.

He chose the name for the indomitable spirit it suggests — the gumption to get back on the horse after you’re thrown off. Which, he says, is what the trepidation of writing solo material felt like.

His first single “Loose Story” is a slow-building, earnest pep talk with himself that’s a darker shade of Americana, with Moore’s earthy voice rising to the occasion in the chorus. The song, engineered and produced by Omar Yakar, features Logan Baudean on guitar, Joey LaRose on drums, Shahana Jaffer on background vocals and Mac Hanson on organ and background vocals.

The song, Moore says, “is a solemn set of instructions aimed at advising us on how to saddle up for the rough road ahead, because nothing comes easy, and darkness waits in the wings to buck those who slip its grip. The themes of moving forward and never forgiving course [through] the 3-minute 45-second window in which the narrator grapples with resolve and conclusion, in an attempt to implement the findings for the betterment of the creative process.

“If one is to hold their story loosely, the inevitability of suffocation vanishes, and ideas reemerge to capture that elusive flight of clarity that is often called insight.”

||| Stream: “Loose Story”