Coming off a recent antics-filled tour with Allegra Krieger, Brooklyn-based songwriter Margaux is announcing today that her debut album Inside the Marble will arrive in June. Between stints playing in backing bands for Krieger along with other like-minded indie-folk and alt-Americana troubadours such as Dougie Poole and Katy Kirby, the artist born Margaux Bouchegnies released her debut EP back in 2019 with only a pair of recent singles landing in the interim. “The album’s common thread is really about making sense of big feelings,” she shares. “I do love songwriting as a craft but I think a lot of the time it is something I turn to amidst a spike in emotion, whether that is rooted in heartbreak, dread, feelings of love, or angst.”
Ahead of the release, Margaux is sharing another new single with “I Wouldn’t Want It Any Other Way” falling under at least one of those aforementioned emotions. The softly sung acoustic ballad sees the songwriter reflecting on the end of a friendship that inevitably comes paired with a breakup. “This song is about coming to terms with the way things are and truly accepting that reality, but really missing the friendship you once shared,” she explains. “Harmonically, I wanted this song to oscillate between feeling grounded but also a little untethered…my hope is that it communicates the longing that can still be present even when you believe it’s for the best.”
That longing certainly comes across in Margaux’s Elliott Smith–like near-whisper (speaking of the ’90s, a tamer “Fuck and Run” comes to mind on one of the hooks) before the track opens up to incorporate layered vocals and emotive violin in the crescendoing final moments. Check it out below, and expect Inside the Marble out June 7 via Massif Records.
