Zoe FitzGerald Carter - Before The Machine (2024)

Bay Area singer-songwriter, Zoe FitzGerald Carter's latest album, Before the Machine, dropped on June 7, 2024. The album weaves a rich fabric of folk, rock, blues and jazz and features a stellar cast of top Bay Area musicians. Inspired by memories of a pre-smart phone world, the title track explores how technology, and specifically smart phones, has changed our experience of time. Most of us live "in the machine,” but there was another world not so long ago. The world Before the Machine.

The album has been a labor of love. I wrote many of the songs in my backyard during the sudden and prolonged hush of the pandemic and was thrilled to have the opportunity to hone them out on the road once the world opened up.