Inspired by Regina Spektor and Fiona Apple, Portland, Maine-born Genevieve Stokes creates vivid, emotional sonic tapestries. On Hiding Place: "I wrote this album as a way of coming back to myself. I'd just been dropped by my label and experienced a great deal of loss in my personal life, and all I wanted was to disappear into music again the way I had as a kid. The album was written and recorded in my parents' garage in Maine, so it feels deeply connected to home and the places that shaped me. 'Never in Love' is a simple declaration of my fears around intimacy."