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For an artist who has put out one album per year since 2017, fans of Sam Welch will not be surprised by a new release for 2025. They may be surprised, however, by the struggles Welch overcame in releasing the eight songs on The Attic.
Subtitled “Songs of Faith and Healing,” the album reflects a difficult year, including an ear injury and a sick pet. Releasing The Attic required real healing. What helped to get the longstanding Unitarian through the pain? Plenty of faith.
The album’s opener, title track “The Attic,” lays out Welch’s point of view with this release—both musically and lyrically. The song begins sparsely, with upbeat drums underneath organ chords, reminiscent of a church service or sixties rock like Procol Harum. It soon kicks into high gear with multiple guitars and Welch’s signature layered vocal harmonies.
The message is one of listening, perseverance, and the cyclical nature of life:
Life is just another yard sale: it’s a long, long tale
A Bible with a broken body held together by a nail
When you’re living in the attic, you’ve gotta listen to the static
Life ain’t automatic, and you gotta be pragmatic
The album emerged from a difficult year, marked by an audiological injury in Welch’s home studio. A burst of feedback left him with tinnitus, making it painful to write and record music, an ordeal that tested his resolve and shaped the album’s core themes of healing and resilience.
Inspiration also came from a more joyful source: the complete transformation of his cat, who recovered from lifelong health problems after starting with a new vet. This experience was so profound that it inspired a track on the album, a song fittingly titled “Cat on the Mend.”
Welch’s main collaborator on The Attic was audio engineer and co-writer Dan Searl, who helped shape the album's sound. While Welch plans his tracks in his home studio using Logic, Searl introduced a polished and organic sound production, filling out the tracks with rich pianos, interesting guitars, and tight mixes.
Sam Welch may be the country’s most prominent Unitarian singer, evidenced by a discography that includes his 2005 album, Unitarian Hymns. His spiritual themes have other sources as well. For example, Welch cites the work of Robbie Robertson and The Band with their motifs of acknowledging a lost past while maintaining hope for the future.
Moving forward, Welch plans to continue exploring personal themes in his songwriting. He says, “I hope to continue to use my music as a channel, a way to channel the feelings that I have about whatever's going on in my life.”
Fans are encouraged to visit SamWelchBoston.com. There, listeners can also stream Welch’s entire 180-song catalog, including 15 albums over a 25-year recording history. They can also sign up for his newsletter, keep track of his performance schedule (including weekly performances at historic venues like Club Passim in Cambridge), and learn more about his creative process.
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NETHERLANDS — August 26, 2026 — Brook Lynn is stepping into a new chapter with “Love Your Enemy,” an atmospheric alternative pop song that turns an intensely personal battle with anxiety into a message of self-acceptance. Written after her America’s Got Talent auditions, the song captures the internal conflict of facing the person who can be hardest to silence: yourself.
Built around cinematic production and emotionally restrained vocals, “Love Your Enemy” explores the disconnect between appearing fine in public and confronting difficult thoughts in private. The song’s central message is reflected in its chorus, where Brook Lynn sings about being “my own worst company” before arriving at its most hopeful realization: “They say, ‘Love your enemy,’ / So I’m learning how to love me.”
For Brook Lynn, that “enemy” is anxiety. Rather than presenting it as something that simply disappears, the song examines what it means to live with those thoughts while refusing to let them dictate what comes next.
“I always want to give a hopeful message in every song,” Brook Lynn explains. “I always first want to explain what is happening in your head and what you feel, and then, at the end, give a message that you can get out of this, and that anxiety doesn’t have to hold you back from all the things you want to achieve in your life.”
That message became especially significant when Brook Lynn made the decision to perform “Love Your Enemy” on America’s Got Talent. Known by many viewers for her stripped-back cover performances, she recognized that performing an original song on one of television’s biggest stages carried a different kind of risk. But she also knew she could not continue forward without showing audiences the artist behind the covers.
“I just thought it was really important to also show the world that I’m not just a cover singer,” she says. “I do want people to know that I write songs and I want to be an artist and put that out there.”
Brook Lynn performed “Love Your Enemy” during the America’s Got Talent quarterfinals, bringing the song’s story of anxiety and self-doubt directly to a massive live audience. Her journey on the show ended there, but the response made one thing clear: listeners wanted to hear more. Fans connected not only with her voice, but with the honesty behind the performance and the willingness to speak openly about emotions many people struggle to acknowledge themselves.
“I do want to be that person with my music as well for other people,” Brook Lynn says, describing her desire to write about real experiences and feelings. “I always want to be really real with everyone, like talk about deeper stuff, not surface level.”
“Love Your Enemy” arrives as Brook Lynn looks ahead to Tales From The Woods, an upcoming EP intended to introduce listeners to a broader picture of who she is as an artist. With only two original songs currently released, she says she is excited to share more music and continue developing the sound and emotional world introduced through “Love Your Enemy.”
The song is not a conclusion to Brook Lynn’s story. It is the beginning of a more open one—one where anxiety can be acknowledged without being allowed to take control, and where the feelings people are often afraid to say out loud can finally have a voice.
Listen to “Love Your Enemy,” which received promotional support from Starlight PR.
Brook Lynn creates music that feels intimate yet powerful, cinematic yet emotionally exposed. Blending atmospheric alternative pop with minimalist visual storytelling, her work explores vulnerability, isolation, emotional tension and human connection through a distinctly modern lens.
Raised in Wilp, a small town in the Netherlands, Brook Lynn grew up surrounded by silence, nature and isolation. Music became a private emotional outlet and a way to process feelings that were difficult to explain out loud. What began through stripped-back online performances evolved into a growing global audience drawn to her honesty and emotional depth.
For Brook Lynn, music is never just about being heard. It is about being understood.
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