Earlier this year, Grammy-nominated songwriter Teddy Geiger — under the moniker teddy<3 (pronounced “teddy”) — announced details on her upcoming new record, Teresa. Today, it’s finally revealed in its entirety on all DSPs via STEM.
As Geiger described of the record’s origins: “I was fortunate to be able to take a three month trip to Madrid in 2019 to reflect and get out of LA and live fresh. All the songs on Teresa came out of that period of self discovery.”
Thus, Teresa — introduced with singles “True Love,” “Never Enough,” “In Spades,” and “I’ve Made Mistakes” — finds Geiger writing from a truly vulnerable and intimate place, purging her heart and soul as a means of healing and spiritual cleansing. With themes of identity, human connection, self-compassion, and love, it’s an album littered with moments of reflection, and also revelation. It’s a celebration of herself, and of the journey it took for her to get to where she is today.
Geiger goes into further detail on the record via a brand new Atwood Magazine piece, published today. Speaking on the record’s title, she wrote: “One night on the street, our group had a little impromptu mixer with another group we were passing. One of the girls thought my name was Tere, and started calling me Teresa and it just stuck with me. I started writing it a lot on fogged windows, etc. through this time of feminine self-discovery and exploration. With my last album, Lillyanna, she was a very repressed angry, dark angel. Teresa kind of glows for me and feels like a lantern on a warm foggy night in a dream forest.”
With its release today, limited edition signed vinyl and accompanying print books with lyrics and original illustrations are available exclusively via the teddy<3 website here.
“Taking some time and space to put together this lyric book really helped me reconnect to not only the songs and the feeling of the album but I also found myself rediscovering creativity outside of music,” Geiger explained.
Geiger additionally accompanies her new record’s release today with a new animated visual for focus track, “I Belong Here.”
On the track and its new visual, she continued:
“This was actually the first song I worked on for the album. I had rented a 1 bedroom apt in Malasaña in Madrid, to spend some time in the creative process. I tend to lean introvert, and I’ve always spent a lot of time working and processing alone and wanted to reconnect to that. The song is about learning to accept exactly where I am at. It has lots of themes of reincarnation, re-establishing a sense of faith, from illusion to clarity.”
It was also so special to work with Sabrina Nichols on the animated video for this song. She had strong sense of song and album and really brought that spirit to life.”
The full-length Teresa LP is out now via STEM. Stay tuned for more from teddy<3, coming soon.
