In the past five years, Angie Nussey has earned her stripes as an independent artist. The upcoming release of her 2nd full-length album, ‘Paint and Turpentine’, represents the culmination of her remarkable accomplishments with the potential to reach even greater heights. To date, Nussey has attained impressive first album sales, radio, television, and web-based success solely through her strength as a performer and the magnetic candour of her music. In an industry that generally covets glossy image over human substance, Angie Nussey is defying the laws of commercial success by garnering the attention of music critics, record companies, mainstream media and amassing a devout following all as an independent artist who writes and performs without gimmick or pretence. Her diverse fan-base can be linked to the strength of her intense tour and performance schedule, playing over 250 dates a year including festivals, clubs and private venues across Canada. Oscillating between powerful story telling, poetic heartbreak, comedy and confessional, self-deprecating honesty, Nussey has crafted a unique songwriting style that is accessible to her listeners, who respond to her music with remarkable devotion. With sales of over 3000 copies of her first full-length album, ‘Circumstantial Overload’, and nationally televised performances and regular play on CBC and College Radio across Canada, Angie Nussey has only just begun to make her impact on the Canadian music scene. Nussey’s affinity for surprise is likely to be well catered to following the release and promotion of “Paint and Turpentine” under her own label, Dragonfly Distribution. With a title highlighting the extremes of opposing liquids, the songs within the album embody not only two ends of an emotional spectrum, but everything in between. The music inspires instant recognition, encompassing issues of love lost and found, the rarely articulated truths of self-doubt, the fear of choices questioned, and the moments of humour that leave us giggling in our heads. ‘Paint and Turpentine’ will likely represent to Angie Nussey the formal acknowledgement by the music industry of what the thousands of people who own one of her albums are already aware.