​Teni Rane (from the album Never Turning Back

​Teni Rane (from the album Never Turning Back

​Teni Rane (from the album Never Turning Back available as a self-release) (by Danny McCloskey)
Memories open the song cycle for Never Turning Back, the recent release from Teni Rane. Her vocal delivery is nearly a whisper when the album opens with “Driveway Conversations” as a front-seat dialogue between two finds a wider audience with its universal truths. The clear-eyed breakdown of life’s events seems to be the natural way of Teni Rane. The soft Folk-based soundtrack of Never Turning Back sturdily supports the deep dive into the human condition that is a muse for Teni Rane. Casting off from an emotional shoreline she promises everything but goodbye with “Sail Into the Dark” as the white lines underneath her four-wheels define the rhythm that carries “Somewhere to Drive” while hurried footsteps cradle the insights of “As I Walk Home”. 
The songs on Never Turning Back, her second album release, reverberate with emotional cornerstones in the lives of a global community: joy, grief, hope, resilience. An airport exit writes the physical and personal tale that becomes “Leaving You Behind” as Teni Rane strums the story of “Arkansas”. In the space of a song, Teni Rane circles the globe through her pen as she describes her travels and travails in “Places”, advising ‘but if we’re falling, we’re flying’ as she grants both wings and a safe spot to land for listeners. Over slow, sluggish chord strums, Teni Rane asks questions and make demands with “Secondhand Memories” as Never Turning Back watches her journey of ‘a thousand miles’, quieting to hear the secrets in ‘a story I have never told’. 
To close out the album, Teni Rane sums up the content of the songs that have come before on the album. She asks ‘when does life become complicated, the simple things become underrated. When did we become so jaded that we’re lost?’, her words drawing a map across universal lifelines in “The Roads Between”. She turns the questions into her own being, bridging the gap by providing a personal assessment that casts a net over a worldwide community that shares the hurdles and benefits from the advice. (by Danny McCloskey)
 
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