Song Premiere: Caitlin Canty, “Hotter Than Hell” + “Strangers/Lovers”
An exquisitely cinematic writer, Caitlin Canty captures in a single scene the spacious splendors of trees, meadows, and mountains as the backdrop for the passionate yearnings of innocence and the tempered emotional wistfulness of experience. The title of her forthcoming album, Night Owl Envies the Mourning Dove, out on October 2, 2025, perfectly conveys the moment when wisdom, sometimes jaded and weary, meets wide-eyed wonder.
Today, Canty is releasing two singles from her new album—“Hotter Than Hell” and “Strangers/Lovers”—because, as she says, “they are in conversation with each other and give a deeper dimensional view of the record.”
Slow, deliberate guitar strums open “Hotter Than Hell,” a signal to the luxuriously unfolding nature of love. Searing electric guitar lines, swirling organ strains, and soaring background vocals spiral higher and higher into the sonic stratosphere evoking the passion building between two lovers. Like a Romantic lyric, the land and the lovers become one: “Way back in the mountains, black cherry wood/ Hotter than hell your heart in my hand/ The thunder of blood drumming through the land/ My body the land.” Canty says that “Hotter Than Hell” is inextricably tied to growing up in Vermont, to which she recently returned to raise her young family. “The land is forever so pure and fresh. The memories of my own life’s firsts are in the ground here that I’ve returned to. And those memories grew this song.
“Strangers/Lovers” is quite simply a gorgeous waltz floating on gentle waves of Sam Kassirer’s lush piano chords and notes, layers of Rich Hinman’s sparkling, sterling pedal steel, and Canty’s richly deep emotional vocals. The music itself conveys the wistfulness that accompanies the journey into “matured, worn-in love.” Says Canty, “This song is for anyone who’s ever weathered a relationship for more than a little while.”
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“Hotter Than Hell” is available HERE.
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