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For her fourth album in five years, Joana Serrat travelled from her home in Vic, Barcelona to the Texas Hill Country outside Austin. There she teamed up with Israel Nash at his Plum Creek Sound studio near the town of Dripping Springs. For the recording sessions Nash & Serrat corralled a stellar crew of musicians: Joey & Aaron McClellan, (Midlake, BNQT, John Grant, Israel Nash), Eric Swanson & Josh Fleischmann (Israel Nash), Dave Simonett (Trampled By Turtles) and Dennis Love (Futurebirds), as well as Nash himself providing additional guitar and backing vocals. Israel Nash produced the album, with Ted Young (Grammy award winner for The Rolling Stones) on engineering and mixing duties.

The resulting album which Joana named after the local town is unsurprisingly Joana Serrats most Americana album to date. Mojo described her last album Cross The Verge as Mazzy Star guesting on an early Neil Young demo, but with Dripping Springs she has produced a far more rounded and polished piece of work. Serrat explains, Its an album that deals with farewells but is filled with an optimistic melancholy that doesnt isolate nor enclose the spirit and determination to realise our own dreams.