Stream: Susy Sun, ‘Fan Girl’

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Susy Sun

How does a songwriter track her tears? Start with some simple piano chords, add some organ and tastefully sad pedal steel and top it with sweet, plaintive vocals about being angry and hurt. That’s how folk singer Susy Sun tells the story about being spurned in favor of a “Fan Girl.”

The single is the follow-up to the Seattle-bred, L.A.-based artist’s full-length, “The Way the Wind Blows,” which was released in April. As she recounts in the song, a year had passed since Sun was replaced by the “Fan Girl,” but the experience was clearly still on Sun’s mind. “I actually wrote the chorus part after awaking from a dream, lyrics and melody were just in my head,” she says. “Only time that’s ever happened.”

The tune was made with engineer Jason Soda at Palomino Sound, with Sun backed by backed by guitarist Smith Allen, pedal steel player Trevor Sohnen, organist Alexander Rudd, bassist Andy Fischer-Price and drummer Seth Sylvester.

||| Stream: “Fan Girl”

||| Also: Watch the video for “Soft Clouds,” from her album

||| Live: Susy Sun plays the Moroccan Lounge on Monday, Sept. 2, along with Cale Tyson and Sofia Wolfson. Tickets.

||| Previously: “Calling You the Same”