Haley Johnsen - Goner (CD)

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  • Label Haley Johnsen Music LLC
  • Format CD, Album, Stereo
  • Format details Cardboard Sleeve
  • Media 1 x CD
  • This pressing 2022
  • Region US
  • Genres Pop
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Self-Released CD in Cardboard Sleeve

Goner is the 2022 full-length album from Portland, Oregon singer-songwriter Haley Johnsen, issued on her own Haley Johnsen Music LLC. This is the self-released compact disc. It holds twelve tracks on a single disc, comes in a cardboard sleeve and was manufactured by Disc Makers. The disc face is printed with her "HJ" monogram and the album title. It is the same CD Johnsen sells through her own shop.

Johnsen wrote and recorded the album during the peak of the pandemic, and the title track came first. She started it in a bathtub and finished it on a solo writing retreat in a vintage trailer on the Washington coast, where it was the first song she completed and demoed. "Goner" came out as a single in September 2021. Its music video was directed by Derich Hartfeil and filmed back at the trailer where the song was written. Johnsen has said the song is about romanticizing nostalgia and the fear of death, and she describes the album as a push and pull between confidence and self-doubt.

Tim Karplus co-wrote several of the songs with her, including the title track, "Common Ground," "Focus" and "Higher." Johnsen wrote "Renegade" and "Emily" on her own, and "Renegade" was also released as a single in 2022. American Songwriter's review described the record as carried by "'80s-tipped synth-pop and brushes of reflective ballads."

Johnsen reached the top 24 on season 11 of American Idol in 2012. Her debut album, Golden Days, followed in 2019, with Allen Stone guesting on "Weekend." That same year she recorded the live acoustic London Sessions at Abbey Road Studios. Since 2019 she has also played bass and sung backing vocals for Big Wild, including dates at Coachella and Red Rocks.

Tracklist

  1. Goner
  2. Common Ground
  3. Renegade
  4. Emily
  5. Focus
  6. Higher
  7. Timeless
  8. My Brother
  9. Wrong Way
  10. Falling Anyway
  11. Make It Heaven
  12. Stopped Making Sense

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Label: Haley Johnsen Music LLC
Format: CD