Whether you have seen her on social media or heard her on Spotify, there is no denying the natural gravity surrounding artist and influencer Cass Cardelle. Her debut album, I’m Changing, carries one of her strongest pulls to date, framing the Nashville-based singer-songwriter’s life of reinvention through glossy country-pop and narrative-led hooks that place you face to face with her relatable resonance.
The album keeps its country aesthetic polished enough for the playlist age, yet Cardelle’s writing refuses to flatten the genre’s roots. Her candid hits receive the contemporary perennial pop-earworm treatment, making everything feel sticky sweet, even the melancholy she draws from vignettes of filling voids in her soul, untethered connections and the lingering sting that survives beyond the era of growing pains.
Raised in coastal Massachusetts before shaping chapters in Los Angeles, Japan and Nashville, Cardelle has carried music through every reinvention, from bedroom writing and living-room performances to house tracks with ZHU and intimate writers’ rounds. It’s no wonder she’s seen so many inner evolutions and has developed the voice to help her listeners through their unmapped changes which knock their sense of self off-kilter.
If you love the diaristic country-pop magnetism of Kelsea Ballerini’s confessional brightness, Kacey Musgraves’ bittersweet clarity and Jewel’s open-hearted melodic pull, you’ll get more than you bargained for in I’m Changing.
I’m Changing is now available on all major streaming platforms, including Spotify.
Review by Amelia Vandergast
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