Tasha / Mini Trees / S. Raekwon

Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, Tasha is a musician who writes songs that take loving and longing seriously. Her second album, Tell Me What You Miss the Most, mingles pockets of introspection with wide, expansive marveling at what’s yet to come. “I was inspired by a distance I felt from myself,” says Tasha of the album. “The writing was kind of born from this desire to get back to an intimacy or honesty with myself.” Her list of inspirations is a collection of types of touch: fleeting, affectionate touch; the brush of a knit blanket; the bracing grip of feeling one’s own skin twinned in a palm. So too does the album veer in and out of touch with Tasha herself, tracing tenderness and loneliness, the paradox of feeling held and utterly abandoned at once. Listen as you sit down to your cup of coffee, listen as you remember someone you once loved and wonder what might have been. Listen and let the album pull you close.