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With his sophomore albumShape & Destroy, Nashville-based artist Ruston Kelly now documents his experience in maintaining sobriety, and finally facing the demons that led him to drug abuse in the first place. But while Kelly recounts that journey with an unvarnished honesty, his grace and conviction as an artist ultimately turnShape & Destroyinto a work of unlikely transcendence.
With its unsparing reflection on what Kelly refers to as the cycle of frustration and temptation after getting clean,Shape & Destroytook form during a period of painful transformation. It wasnt surprising to me that getting sober was a challenge, but there were moments when it was challenging in a way Id never experienced before, Kelly says. Theres so much repair your brain has to dospiritually, emotionally, physicallyand at one point I really felt like I was losing my mind.
As a means of self-preservation and catharsis, Kelly eventually turned to the ritual of free writing, a practice that led him to the albums title. This phrase just came to me one day: Shape the life you want by destroying what obstructs the soul, he recalls. I realized that was the ticket to healing myself and healing my mind: figuring out what kind of person I want to become, and then getting rid of everything that keeps me from being that person.
STREET DATE:August 28, 2020
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