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You're listening to In Our Headphones and I'm Ev Evie Stokes, joined today by Liz Cooper, an artist with a brand new album out now called New Day.

And Liz, you're out on tour right now around this album release.

How's tour been treating you?

Tour has been really good and really hard and everything in between.

It's beautiful.

It's magical.

It's my therapy working through this record.

And yeah, I'm just like incredibly grateful to be back out on the road and to be connecting with new and old fans and, you know, friends.

Have you been getting a huge response to this record?

Because it's so good.

Yeah, I feel like grassroots, yes.

I feel like I've been like getting new, like I've been hearing a lot from my peers and people who I really respect,

that people have been reaching out to me,

just being like, wow, like, what the hell is this? Like, what happened to you? And, yeah,

and I feel that way from fans as well. People are coming up to me. They're telling me about,

you know, their breakup that they're going through through and people are, they seem to be really emotionally connecting to this. And it's insane for me to see it because I'm also, you know,

going through it. I'm like, I'm processing, you know, my kind of, like, break from this relationship still and this record.

I made it in the midst of, like, all of the different layers and the different, like, ways that this relationship took shape.

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