Abby Huston Joins Egghunt Roster & Announces New LP
LP Cover Artwork for the new release, AH HA , due to be released on 10/22/21
We are excited to announce that the wonderful & talented, Abby Huston, has signed to Egghunt to release their second full-length LP. READ the full BIO below:
On “Promise,” the opening track from their sophomore album AH HA, Abby Huston takes on the voice of a brokenhearted tv-drama boy band character, very much in the same vein as Gilmore Girls’ Jesse. “Why don’t you love me, give me a reason why,” they sing solemnly, lamenting about unreturned love. Their tender words are surrounded by an eclectic mash of a hip-hop drumbeat, acoustic guitar strums, wandering piano bits, and jingle bells. Despite the jovial atmosphere, that touch of melodrama, which lingers in the corners of Huston’s songs, is a significant trademark for the Richmond-based musician. “If I’m writing a song, it’s gonna be a little moody,” Huston reveals, their words curling as they smile.
Huston doesn’t make pop-punk music—their music a mix of the softness found in R&B crooners and indie rock ballads— but their craft is indebted to the emo revival of the early 2000s. Their music might not recall the desperate howl of Gerard Way or the battle cry of Avril Lavigne, but Abby Huston wouldn’t be making music without their influence.
Huston grew up in Falls Church, VA where they picked up a guitar to perform My Chemical Romance’s “Summertime” for the eighth grade talent show. Progressing from covers to writing their own music around 16 years old. “I don't know why music is the outlet. Partially because I’ve been so private about it, so embarrassed about the fact that I sing or want to sing,” they reveal. “But something in me still really wanted to sing and just working through that.”
It wasn’t until studying sculpture at VCU when Huston’s musical career started to fully form. They met their collaborator Cameron Smith, who also produces under the name Not Kevin, while working at the media lab. Smith produced Huston’s first album Rich, which was their love letter to the local music scene in Richmond. “I write music for me, but I put out music to be a part of the community that I’m in here,” they say.