Bedouine reacts to traditional gender roles on the breathtaking "Solitary Daughter"

The track arrives in the wake of stellar debut "Dusty Eyes", the first taste of Bedouine's upcoming self-titled debut record on Matthew E. White's Spacebomb label.

Bedouine mines classic folk seams on "Solitary Daughter", imbuing her gentle guitars and voice with a lightness and simplicity to deliver freshness - there's huge emotion in each note, but it's not an overwhelming kind of track, with subtle movements going a long way. Vintage string flourishes and harmonies look back to a sound of decades past, but Bedouine's ruminations on gender form part of a modern debate.

"The song is kind of a reaction to traditional gender roles, " explains Bedouine, aka Azniv Korkejian, to NPR. "It was sort of a rejection of conventional romance; it's not something that I needed. Sure, it might be something I would like, but I don't need to be whisked away on someone else's terms."

"Moving around so much caused me at some point to feel displaced, to not really belong anywhere and I thought that was a good title," Korkejian says of her Bedouine name - although born to Armenian parents in Aleppo, Syria, she was raised in Saudi Arabia and the USA. Since arriving in the States she's lived in Boston, Houston, Los Angeles, Lexington (Kentucky), Austin, and Savannah (Georgia).