

While it may not be her only creative outlet, Garland believes music has a profound power to transform the lives of those who learn to play it. It's me writing to heal myself and hopefully others are inspired from that music as well for whatever it may mean to them." "My creative process can look different at times, but a lot of times it's writing poetry, practicing at home, coming up with different chord progressions, and it will appear from there. An avid writer, Garland says that many of her song ideas begin in the pages of a notebook.


"It's me writing to heal myself and hopefully others are inspired from that music as well for whatever it may mean to them." –Jess Garland tweet this Music is not Garland's only creative outlet. "Thinking about, like, the current challenging times now, just having this level of uncertainty but still having a motivation to keep moving forward." "The more I think about the song, the more I see that it can be relatable to any situation," she says. The brilliance of the song is its openness to interpretation, something the artist has noticed especially in the days of the pandemic. Neither on the phone as we speak, nor in the song. I found the strength to just keep on moving forward." I wasn't really sure what my life was going to look like without that relationship. "It was a relationship that definitely took over more than a decade of my life," she says. It's difficult to condense the entirety of a 10-year relationship and its aftermath into the confines of a song, even when it extends to close to seven minutes, but the way the track's texture builds slowly from a single harp to a wall of percussion has an effect that echoes the message of forging a path through adversity and finding a way to glow. "I'm telling the story of going through a challenging time and how was I able to overcome that." "Honestly, the lyrical content comes from an abusive marriage that ended in divorce," she says. "Glow" is an avant-garde, ethereal pop song inspired by the struggles the artist faced in a decade-long relationship. Finally, Garland's first single has arrived. For years, Jess Garland has told people that she was "working on it." The longtime Dallas multi-instrumentalist and music teacher has spent most of her career playing in other peoples' bands while quietly working on her own sound.
