Margaret Glaspy

In an era of excess and endless distraction, the New York-based singer/songwriter Margaret  Glaspy rejects the noise in favor of something far more essential. On the self-possessed title  track for her new album I Am Both Glaspy offers an ardent refusal of any outside pressure to  compromise her multidimensionality. “I wrote ‘I Am Both’ a while ago; the story is based on a  female character that I look up to deeply—a woman who contains multitudes while seeing reality  very clearly,” says Glaspy. “It can feel safer to try to fit myself into a category, but I find that  embracing my own complexity is much healthier for me.” That embrace of complexity runs  throughout the album’s eleven tracks.