Kevin Bronson on June 6th, 2023

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L.A. singer-songwriter NoSo soundtracks a triumph with beautifully finger-picked guitar and the diaphanous vocals of folkies past on the new single “Kaitlin.”

It’s the first new music from songwriter Baek Hwong since the release of the debut album “Stay Proud of Me” last July.

“I wrote this song when I was deep into learning intricate acoustic fingerstyle pieces and ended up composing the most difficult guitar part I’ve made yet,” NoSo says. “It’s about being treated kindly in a relationship for the first time after years of subjecting myself to mistreatment because it was all I knew, and frankly, it was what I thought I deserved.

“For many, many years, I genuinely believed something was wrong with me. I was disgusted by anyone who was caring and interested in me and I was only attracted to unkind people and hurtful behavior. I felt stiff, robotic and incapable of loving. This song is ultimately a celebration. It’s about realizing I have the capacity to love, to feel accepted, and to not be repelled by safety, but to run toward it, and even when it feels like I’m regressing, I know I can do it again.”

||| Stream: “Kaitlin”

||| Previously: “Parasites” / “David”