Found in the Inbox: Alyssa Gallarneau Builds ‘For The Record’ From Places, Symbols and Family Stories

Found in the Inbox · Exposed Vocals

Alyssa Gallarneau approaches the songs on her debut album For The Record as scenes with details worth revisiting. The singer-songwriter, who splits her time between Chicago and Bloomington, Indiana, wrote the record across several months and three countries. In the materials LPR Agency supplied to Exposed Vocals, locations range from a mission trip in the mountains of Mexico to the familiarity of home. Place becomes part of the writing rather than scenery attached afterward.

The album connects love, faith, longing and self-discovery through visual motifs and symbolism. Gallarneau explains in the press release that she wanted the songs to reward repeated visits and reveal further details. That offers a precise way into the campaign: the record asks how a personal experience can become a scene that another person enters, while retaining the specific objects, relationships and settings that made it meaningful to its writer.

A departure gate with personal history

One of the clearest examples is the focus track “I Don’t Want To Think About You,” written with her older sister Brittany Gallarneau. The song concerns the contradiction of trying to forget someone who remains difficult to escape. Its aviation imagery draws on a family of pilots and on Brittany’s own career. The press materials imagine a flight departing while the person expected at the gate arrives too late. It is a recognizable emotional situation expressed through a setting that belongs specifically to the sisters’ shared lives.

The record also developed through a connection with UK producer Ian Barter after an introduction from Mark Morrison. Gallarneau traveled to London twice to work in Barter’s garden studio, and the campaign describes their shared faith as part of the collaboration. Released via MackLife Records/So, Let’s Talk and distributed by Stem, For The Record brings that production partnership together with songs shaped across very different environments. The resulting project is positioned between pop, folk and singer-songwriter traditions.

The places where the record took shape

Earlier singles included “Love Business (Sha-Boom),” “SoHo” and “Consider This The End.” The wider biography describes performances with a seven-piece band and appearances at venues and events including House of Blues Chicago and Milwaukee Summerfest. For this feature, however, the central thread is the album’s method of storytelling. A journey, a garden studio and a family’s relationship with flight are concrete foundations for a debut that treats private meaning as something listeners can discover gradually through the songs.

Photo by Iman Gum. Photo supplied by LPR Agency. Editorial reporting based on the supplied campaign materials.