Release Date: 13/03/26
True is the debut album from Tenderness, the solo project of Katy Beth Young (Peggy Sue, Deep Throat Choir). It guides listeners through vivid scenes on deceptively simple, country‑adjacent songs that shimmer with electric guitars, drones and licks of pedal steel. These songs look sideways at romance, grief and technology—breaking hearts with precise, thoughtful beauty as well as sadness—by turns tender like a touch, tender like a bruise. Produced by Euan Hinshelwood (Younghusband, Cate Le Bon), the record is solo in name but communal in spirit, with layers of bass, electric guitars, synths and drones. Longtime collaborators appear throughout: Peggy Sue’s Clay Slade and Olly Joyce, La Luz’s Marian Li‑Pino, and members of Deep Throat Choir. Pedal steel comes from Harry Bohay (Aldous Harding, Sylvie), while Berlin musicians Martha Rose, Dandy Deniz and Benjamin Gregory provide backing vocals. Producer Chloe Kraemer adds the finishing touches with strings and synths. The result is a deeply personal yet quietly expansive album—born from solitude, shaped by community, rooted in heartache and reaching toward something hopeful.
True is the debut album from Tenderness, the solo project of Katy Beth Young (Peggy Sue, Deep Throat Choir). It guides listeners through vivid scenes on deceptively simple, country‑adjacent songs that shimmer with electric guitars, drones and licks of pedal steel. These songs look sideways at romance, grief and technology—breaking hearts with precise, thoughtful beauty as well as sadness—by turns tender like a touch, tender like a bruise. Produced by Euan Hinshelwood (Younghusband, Cate Le Bon), the record is solo in name but communal in spirit, with layers of bass, electric guitars, synths and drones. Longtime collaborators appear throughout: Peggy Sue’s Clay Slade and Olly Joyce, La Luz’s Marian Li‑Pino, and members of Deep Throat Choir. Pedal steel comes from Harry Bohay (Aldous Harding, Sylvie), while Berlin musicians Martha Rose, Dandy Deniz and Benjamin Gregory provide backing vocals. Producer Chloe Kraemer adds the finishing touches with strings and synths. The result is a deeply personal yet quietly expansive album—born from solitude, shaped by community, rooted in heartache and reaching toward something hopeful.