LAUREN DILLEN
Side Stage
"every-woman sore,” Lauren Dillen’s latest solo release, is a breathtaking meditation on kinship and the people who sustain her. “I give you my heart every time ‘cause I see that your heart looks like mine,” she sings. Recorded in her home studio with Burs bandmate Ray Goudy, a series of plucked guitar notes are returned to again and again on “every-woman sore,” as if mimicking daily affirmations offered by those you are closest to. In Dillen’s own words, “‘every-woman sore’ is my reflection on how I’ve treated the women in my life in the past, how they have treated me, and the responsibilities that we carry.”
Dillen began writing “every-woman sore” in early 2024 when she, alongside numerous other artists, was taking a virtual songwriting workshop led by Adrianne Lenker (of Big Thief) through the School of Song. The guitar’s open tuning and Dillen’s tumbling melody are reminiscent of Lenker’s own solo work in addition to the modern folk sound of artists like Laura Marling and Hayley Heynderickx.